Tag: Shakespeare

• Let’s get ‘Real’ (ii) ‘The Lord of the Dance’

  My previous post was about Materialism, which the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines as “the theory or belief that nothing exists except matter”. My point was that Materialism, arguably, ‘doesn’t have very much in it’, since matter is made up of atoms that are 99.99% ‘empty space’! The truth of the matter (!) is that […]

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  3rd Jul 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science

  Consciousness, Cosmos, Design, Einstein, God, Lord of the Dance, Paul Tillich, Shakespeare, Shiva, Spirit

• Myth and the Gospels

  In my previous post, I wrote about myths in the Hebrew Bible, and also about contemporaneous Greek myths. There are also what we can call myths, I believe, in the Gospels, and here I’m suggesting an example in John’s gospel. By ‘myths’, I mean imaginative stories which include supernatural beings and events. The fourth gospel, […]

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  11th May 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Gospels, Jesus, Lazarus, Literature, Macbeth, Myth, Resurrection, Shakespeare, Supernatural