WHITEHEAD – THE PLAY
(Text from Process and Reality, “God and the World”, by Alfred North Whitehead.) Characters F – A father, well educated, possibly in a...
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The articles in this section represent work I have done over the past decade. The best of them will gradually be edited and posted in future issues of AT Magazine. In the meantime, feel free to take a look at any that interest you. At the end of each article, there is a comments section. Please use this space to offer suggestions and/or criticisms. Help me get these articles ready for publication.
Thanks,
David Cowles
Editor-in- Chief, AT Magazine
ESCHATON REVISTED
Eschatology is traditionally defined as the study of the four last things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. Not exactly hot topics of...
LORD’S PRAYER
Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day...
ECCLESIASTES
“Vanity of vanities. All things are vanity.” So begins Ecclesiastes, a book of Old Testament Wisdom literature, traditionally attributed...
GRACE
“We are not what we are and we are what we are not.” — Jean Paul Sartre Our being is really a perpetual becoming. We are never static,...
THE NATURE OF GOD
In an earlier essay in this collection, Atheism, we demonstrated that theism and atheism share a common history and a common intellectual...
THE SECRET LIFE OF THINGS
What is a ‘thing’? According to the Nicene Creed, God is the creator of “all things, visible and invisible” and according to the Gospel...
THE MANY WORLDS INTERPRETATION OF NOH
“You do not dip twice in the river/Beneath the same tree’s shadow/Without bonds in some other life.” Heraclitus? No. We find this...
THE REALISTIC MANIFESTO
It’s 1920. The glow of the Russian Revolution is everywhere and dialectical materialism is the philosophy de jour. Every aspect of life...
EPHESUS: DOCTRINE OF TRINITY
The City of Ephesus, located in modern day Turkey, has hosted some of the most important advances in the history of Western Philosophy....
JEREMIAH
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, Before you were born I dedicated you, A prophet to the nations I appointed you. (Jer. 1:5)...
THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF TIME
In an earlier essay in this collection, The Perpendicular Present, we showed conclusively that the experiential Present has nothing...
THE PERPENDICULAR PRESENT
At first glance, our lives seem to be strings of bead-like events. No sooner have we experienced one sensation, one thought, one feeling,...
THE THREE MODALITIES OF BEING
I, you, he/she/it, the three persons of verbal conjugation, a staple of nearly every grammar class, be it modern (English), classical...
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