Sunday, 10 March 2024

Abraham gets only 60% for "obedience" with respect to sacrificing Isaac; because God Most values "un-obedience"

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William Arkle distinguished a way above and out-from the traditional dilemma of obedience versus disobedience to God; by considering the que...

Those Arkle moments... Something I do when threatened by incipient angst-despair

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It is more than a decade since I engaged seriously with the work of William Arkle - at first on this blog and the archive blog previously l...
Wednesday, 2 August 2023

We should not lose our-Selves in communing with God -- or, at least, only partially-temporarily, as a means of learning...

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Perhaps it is driving the principle too far to say that Being with God is less than Being with Self? It is something which depends on the wa...
Monday, 15 May 2023

The perilous necessity of seeking enchantment (The 'romantic life' as a fact of nature.)

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I have been re-reading that most inspiring of essays: On Fairy Stories , by JRR Tolkien; and considering the need some of us feel (in the ...
Sunday, 14 May 2023

Review of Divine Friendship (2023) - An aggregation of Arkle's analects; edited by Jon Flint

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Divine Friendship: An aggregation of Arkle's analects .  Edited by Jon Flint. Independently published on Amazon Kindle, 2023. 77 pages. ...
Wednesday, 1 September 2021

Contra Arkle - resurrection supersedes reincarnation

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Reincarnation seems to imply (if not to entail) the eternal primacy of spirit life (unembodied, 'pure' spirit) above incarnation (e...
Friday, 21 February 2020

Is God's creation play, or from overflowing love?

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If the primal reality of God is imagined before the beginning of creation, and if God is single and personal; then creation can be understoo...