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R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Why I Am Not a Muslim
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1995
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On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians
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Porphyry's Against the Christians
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Julian's Against the Galileans
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The Jesus Legend
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1996
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Sources of the Jesus Tradition: Separating History from Myth
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2010
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Marcion, on the Restitution of Christianity: An Essay on the Development of Radical Paulist Theology in the Second Century (American Academy of Religion Academy Series)
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1984
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Biblical vs. Secular Ethics
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1988
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Just War And Jihad: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, And Islam
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2006
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The Origins of Christianity: A Critical Introduction
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1985
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There were knives between us,
bottles and inconvenience: pinches and
bruises, flung coffee and gin
and eyes struck out and wincing retreats.
By Seneca's god it was too hot for words,
and all suspicion,
and all designed
to murder love.
Well, she is gone. Here I remain.
She has her flat and roundfaced lover of books,
mainly I think of Russian.
I have my books,
but no one so incomparably to my taste,
to my taste, Read more of this blog post »
bottles and inconvenience: pinches and
bruises, flung coffee and gin
and eyes struck out and wincing retreats.
By Seneca's god it was too hot for words,
and all suspicion,
and all designed
to murder love.
Well, she is gone. Here I remain.
She has her flat and roundfaced lover of books,
mainly I think of Russian.
I have my books,
but no one so incomparably to my taste,
to my taste, Read more of this blog post »
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“Christmas is frighteningly magical and mysterious. No wonder people feel lonely in the midst of their families, and unloved in the act of receiving gifts. Christmas is that place where the expectation of happiness confronts the reality of human sadness, where joy to the world means the judgment of mankind.”
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“The attraction of New Year is this: the year changes and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult however to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page. We are creatures of faith, like it or not.”
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“Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.”
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“Christmas is frighteningly magical and mysterious. No wonder people feel lonely in the midst of their families, and unloved in the act of receiving gifts. Christmas is that place where the expectation of happiness confronts the reality of human sadness, where joy to the world means the judgment of mankind.”
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“The reason I could never be an atheist is because when they get together they have literally nothing to talk about.”
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“The division in human religion has always been between those who see the fall of man as a fall into freedom and those who see it as an act of defiance against the tyranny of an all-powerful father. But Adam and Eve were never in heaven; they were in the mud, and had to leave the only home they had ever known behind. And why? For choosing love and freedom over perpetual infancy and slavery of the will. Their sin was moral responsibility. Their reward is clear: "They have becomes gods--knowing good and evil." And for that, they were condemned to live in a world of discovery and choices.”
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“Atheists are in a difficult position. A lot of modern religion is progressive, ethical and socially responsible--not about "supernaturalism" or a tyrannical ancient God. Atheists, on the one hand, risk giving the impression that they are campaigning against compassion and basic human values, or on the other that they are in a fight to finish off a dinosaur that was killed by liberal theology while they were sleeping.”
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“For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observable nature of things. The poetic and theological idea that the universe is an expression of God's creative power is false. And yet the possibility that underlying the nature of things is an undiscoverable force of unimaginable simplicity that one may call God haunts and frustrates modern science. If this principle exists, then it cannot be different from our experience of it: it must be inherent, not transcendent; purely natural, therefore, not a violation of its own being, and hence intelligent, in the sense it requires coherence rather than chaos and confusion to exist at all--as the ancient myths tell us; impersonal to the extent that we cannot attribute moral purposes or even will, classically understood, to what we can observe of its operations. It is entirely coextensive and if it has a limit coterminous with what is--a perception that dates in theology from Anselm to Tillich and in natural philosophy from Democritus to Planck. It does not exist in gaps of undiscovered data or models or as an unsolved mystery but in the givenness of the world and the intelligent life form that has arisen to ponder it.”
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