“I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach.” ThinkingWayWantTechnologyApproachRelationAppearanceDespiteThoughtfulRelevantQuestioningWant UHeidegger Author:George Pattison
“At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference.” ThinkingFactsTermDifferencesLevelsSubjectsApproachAspectAskingMeaningfulAddressesInvestigationNot InterestedTheoreticalAsking QuestionsNaturalistActual Life Author:George Pattison
“But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.” MightReaderApproachScholarAuthorshipClimax Author:George Pattison
“Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me.” HumansDoeMatterSeemsHuman BeingsPrinciplesExampleApproachAliensDocumentsAdagesHuman Thought Author:George Pattison
“Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says what it says on the basis of scripture, and that's that.” HumansPossibilityTearsApproachBasesScriptureTheologyDialogue Author:George Pattison
