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How Wonder in Speculative Fiction Helps Us Understand Religion

This is part of a series of posts about the value of speculative fiction in understanding religion.

Another reason why speculative fiction is cognitively valuable for understanding religion is that both have a strong connection to feelings of awe and … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on December 10, 2021January 19, 2022Tags Literature, Religion, Speculative Fiction

Agency and Cognitive Value in “The Paper Menagerie”

This is part of a series of posts about the value of speculative fiction in understanding religion.

In Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie,” Jack’s mom merits our pity. Her first memory was of her mother eating dirt during a famine … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on December 5, 2021January 19, 2022Tags Literature, Religion, Speculative Fiction

Framing How Speculative Fiction Can Be Cognitively Valuable For Understanding Religion

This is part of a series of posts about the value of speculative fiction in understanding religion.

So far I’ve painted a rather dim picture concerning the cognitive value of speculative fiction. But being a speculative fiction writer myself, that’s … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on December 3, 2021January 16, 2022Tags Literature, Religion, Speculative Fiction

A Helpful Portrayal of Religion in SF: Ursula Le Guin’s The Telling

This is part of a series of posts about the value of speculative fiction in understanding religion.

I’ve discussed portrayals of religion I think are best avoided in speculative fiction, but how can we understand what makes a of portrayal … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on November 26, 2021December 19, 2021Tags Religion, Speculative Fiction

Unhelpful Portrayals of Religion

This is part of a series of posts about the value of speculative fiction in understanding religion.

I’m editing an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories about religion called Strange Religion, planned to be out in April. So … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on November 23, 2021December 19, 2021Tags Religion, Speculative Fiction

God As Executive (To Whom We Can Say Nothing)

We construe transcendent God through analogies: God as a loving father, a just or cold-eyed judge, a suffering savior, as Jesus of the Gospel, as victor over Death, as jealous tribal god of the Hebrews, as (war)lord of hosts… Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on November 28, 2020November 28, 2020Tags Aristotle, Christianity, Religion, Theology

The Nonsense End of the Heart Sutra?

Some commentators and translators of the Heart Sutra, leave the mantra at the end untranslated. So sometimes we find:

“The mantra of the perfection of wisdom is stated thus: gate gate pāragate pārasamgate bodhi svāhā.”

and sometimes we … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on October 21, 2020January 9, 2021Tags Buddhism, Religion, Translation

A Compelling Argument for God

I’ve already discussed how unconvincing I find William Lane Craig’s Moral Argument for God, so it is interesting that there is a cousin to this argument that I find compelling, the Argument from Moral Knowledge:

  1. We have knowledge
… Read the rest
Author andy dibblePosted on July 16, 2020July 18, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Philosophy, Religion

A Very Bad Argument for God

Some arguments for theism seem to either rest on a metaphysical confusion, like the Ontological Argument. Others might furnish evidence for God, such as the Cosmological Argument and the Argument From Design. But these arguments rarely convince non-theists, … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on July 14, 2020August 4, 2020Tags Arguments for God, Philosophy, Religion

On Giving God More Than His Due

A friend of mine helped one of his friends recover a chapter of her graduate thesis from a corrupted flash drive. Needless to say, she was appreciative and made this clear on Facebook. Amongst the many compliments and comments to … Read the rest

Author andy dibblePosted on May 3, 2020May 3, 2020Tags Religion, Theology

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