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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Dharmaśāstras: The Reordering of the World, One More Time

The emergence of the Hindu Dharmaśāstra texts in India as polemical rhetoric

To say, as the Dharmaśāstras do, that some people know dharma is to also say that others do not. There is, then, not only a stated purpose to the Dharmaśāstras, but one that is set in a telling awareness of disagreement and debate.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

What Text will now Define & Describe Ontology?

Being & Act in a Brief Assessment of Vedantic Philosophy

If Western modern philosophy is to be faulted for its own Enlightenment presuppositions—ironically ill-disposed as it became to the Biblical revelation, also—so must the Indian schools face the nature and source of their own most basic assumptions.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

Inspiration & Intelligibility

Language, revelation, and its religious misuse: Contrasting the character of biblical and Vedic speech

Revelation is by virtue of the Son and carried out by the Spirit, effecting understanding and a renewed relation between God and men. In scripture, language is made to serve God in a rational and benighted soul and make him a devoted soul. God’s words are given to us by the prophets, inscribed with a pen.

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Reflections (& Refractions)

Power, Privilege, & Potluck Dinners

A simple meal as the unlikely demonstration of the gospel's power

In capitals all around the world, men devise many means to encourage or impose even the most tenable of unities. Against these efforts are raised the schemes of still other clever men, attempting another new unity to replace the last. The church is to stand outside the circle of these efforts, preaching a gospel that displays a different kind of power.

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