Razie Mah: 70 books

Modernism belongs to the Age of Ideas. According to John Deely, two figures mark the turning point from the Latin Age to the Age of Ideas. They are Rene Descartes, pointing the way to the Age of Ideas, and John Poinsot, arriving at the triadic nature of the sign relation. The time is 1650 AD.These...

Cheong Lee writes a standard contemporary work in semiotics. The full title is "Interpretation of Nature: Peirce's Theory of Interpretation". However, because he is still young, he is like a passenger on a train. His argument is like a travel journal. Semiotics is like journey. One understands...

Over seven centuries ago, St. Thomas Aquinas explored Aristotle's works from a Christian world view. Evolution was not one of the issues on the agenda. Aquinas concluded that God made every form, except for the mule, which happens to be the product of two natural kinds, the horse and the ass. Chaberek...

How do humans process “what is before us”?The answer is construction. Those familiar with Kenneth Gergen’s interpretive psychology are acquainted with one type of construction: social construction. But what contrasts with social construction? The answer is: sensible construction.Pascal Boyer’s...

Ideas in Schreiner's article are associated to elements in categorical nested forms. Then, the implications are discussed. The categorical nested forms turn Schreiner's ideas inside out, just like the Fall turned humanity inside out. What does Adam's transgression mean? Are we born...

This short piece takes a look at the implications of one voice in the present discourse on the historical Adam. Denis Lamoureux is a bright and totally well meaning. For this reason alone, a light-hearted response is appropriate. Surely, given all that we know about human evolution, a revision of...

Father Dan Pattee, T.O.R., writes an essay on how the meaning of the term “social justice” changed over the past century. The phrase refers to “legal justice” in papal documents. However, the term expands to include commutative and distributive justice in late modern post-religious writings....

Modernism belongs to the Age of Ideas. According to John Deely, two figures mark the turning point from the Latin Age to the Age of Ideas. They are Rene Descartes, pointing the way to the Age of Ideas, and John Poinsot, arriving at the triadic nature of the sign relation. The time is 1650 AD.These...

In Faith, Reason and the War against Jihadism (2007), religious journalist George Weigel discusses al Banna’s and Qutb’s Islam and how it confronts the West. The world separates into the House of Islam and the House of War.But, what is the West?Big Government Liberalism, the victor of the Cold...

In Ecos of Meaning: Umberto Eco’s Semiotic Theory for Theological Hermeneutics (2016), theologian Andrew Hollingsworth seeks a clearer definition of “meaning”. He hopes that Eco’s exposition, A Theory of Semiotics, does the trick. Key terms include: sign, text, authorial intent and reader...

In The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy (2016), professor Eric Santner presents an idea: Late medieval and early modern political theology transubstantiated into middle and late modern political economy.He does this through directed association, drawing on references...

This essay is Appendix A of How To Define the Word "Religion". I broke it out as a separate piece for classes in both religion and the social sciences to consider. The category-based nested form is the ground for this entertaining consideration of the way the empirical and social sciences operate and how we (humans) respond to their operations.

Tyler Paytas publishes “Of Providence and Puppet Shows: Divine Hiddenness and Kantian Theology" in the journal, Faith and Philosophy, in 2019. The subtitle captures the essence of the work, which ties together two questions that typically come from the same person. If God is just and loving,...

In the late 1800s, Charles S. Peirce defines natural signs as icons, indexes and symbols. The difference among them reflects the three categories of firstness, secondness and thirdness (the realms of possibility, actuality and normal context). In the early 1900s, Ferdinand de Sausure discovers an...