Tag: "religion"

Paul Kurtz

Paul Kurtz author, philosophy professor and professional skeptic, takes time out of a round-the-world lecture tour to talk to our man in Toronto, Colin Hunter.
[Issue 38: October/November 2002: Interview]

The ‘War of Good Against Evil’

Raimond Gaita on racism, religion and the motives of suicide bombers.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: War]

The Nature of Religious Belief

Chris Bloor replies to ‘Cutting God in Half’ by Nicholas Maxwell.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Articles]

M.J. Akbar

M.J. Akbar is the editor of The Asian Age newspaper and author of a new book, The Shade of Swords, in which he seeks to clairify the meaning of ‘Jihad’. He recently talked with Philosophy Now.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Interview]

The Dialectics of Faith & Enlightenment

Hegel has been enormously influential, but is notoriously difficult to read. In this new section, Peter Benson guides us through a series of typical Hegelian moves from the ‘Phenomenology of Spirit.’.
[Issue 37: August/September 2002: Articles]

Dear Socrates

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 36: June/July 2002: Dear Socrates]

Religious Guidance

Radio personality Dr Laura Schlessinger is a chat show phenomenon, dispensing advice to the thousands of callers and millions of regular listeners to her show. She recently ran into controversy for her outspoken Biblically-based criticisms of homosexuality. The following open letter to Dr Laura appeared on the internet…
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Humour]

The Blasphemy of Saint Augustine

James Hale argues that the Holy Spirit is feminine and that the Trinity is a mirror of the nuclear human family.
[Issue 35: March/April 2002: Heresy]

Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Plantinga is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and is thought by many to be the most interesting philosopher of religion writing today. Daniel Hill asked him all about his long-awaited new book.
[Issue 34: December 2001 / January 2002: Interview]

Mary Daly

Mary Daly is a world-renowned Radical Feminist philosopher, theologian and author.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001: Interview]

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