Theology
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In a 2021 interview, Ian MacKaye, the frontman of the hardcore band Minor Threat, explained that the “straight edge” lifestyle—consisting in the rejection of drugs, alcohol, and other excesses—was initially based on practical considerations rather than rigid moral prescriptions. And indeed, MacKaye proclaims in the song “Out of Step”: “This is no set of rules,…
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A society’s mind, like that of an individual, tends to operate on two different levels. One is the level of preoccupation about acute, urgent issues–issues such as economical injustice, social tensions, or more generally, issues that generate contestation and incentivize political groups. These are the issues about which people get upset, and that determine the…
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In the twenty-first century, it has become common again—in the US as much as in India—to invoke religious reasons for political decisions, and to appeal to sacred scriptures or dogma as sources of secular authority. Religion is seen as a framework constituted of immediately applicable, non-problematic rules: prohibitions for food and sexuality, imposed social hierarchies,…
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I know what it takes to keep my head on straightPutting shit in my mind and body is not the wayI don’t need the drugs, I don’t need a crutchMy mind is all I’ll ever need to stay in touch Uniform Choice – “No Thanks” A paradigm shift that has been reshaping philosophy, theology, and…
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Paul Tillich writes, in his Systematic Theology: “A group, whether a family or mankind as a whole, does not participate in the effects of the New Being.” (I, 87) The family is meaningful, but it is not a Christian value—it is no ultimate. It is remarkable that, in the history of Christianity, one of the…
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Hegel is a theorist of the Absolute. His system resembles premodern metaphysics in that it situates the Absolute in the divine Mind, Geist. The divine Mind is the object both of philosophy and theology. The innovative quality of Hegel’s system is that it explains why the Mind allows for these different perspectives, and why philosophy…
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