Razie Mah: 70 books

This work comments an essay titled, “Is a Thomistic Theory of Intentionality Consistent with Physicalism?” The original author is James D. Madden. The article appears in the Winter 2017 edition of the American Catholic Quarterly (91:1-28). Madden’s essay covers a lot of interesting territory....

Why is the current story of human evolution so dissatisfying? The answer is simple. It is not adequate. To date, modern biological theories are built on the idea that adaptation responds to material advantage or causation, rather than the potential of an actuality independent of the species. Consequently,...

In 1980, Jeremy Cohen publishes an essay in the July-October issue of the Harvard Theological Review (vol 73(3/4) pp. 495-520). The full title is "Original Sin as the Evil Inclination - A Polemicist's Appreciation of Human Nature". In 1278, the Dominicans are changing Western civilization...

In 1994, Luca Cavalli-Sforza publishes The History and Geography of Human Genes, using phenotypic markers such as blood antigens. Now, decades later, the techniques for sequencing the human genome have dramatically improved. So has mathematical modeling. David Reich, geneticist at Harvard Medical...

In Gnostic America: A Reading of Contemporary American Culture and Religion according to Christianity’s Oldest Heresy (2014), a Lutheran pastor, Peter Burfeind, sounds the alarm. The American culture has fallen under the influence of a resurgent, modern Gnosticism.How could an ancient heresy re-appear...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primer address...

Daniel Novotny aims to demonstrate that the Baroque scholastics should no longer be ignored. This happens to also be the thesis of another philosopher, John Deely in a separate book, New Beginnings: Early Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Thought (1994). In these comments on Novotny’s text, the category-based...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primer address...

Clinical and social scientists Miron Zuckerman, Chen Li and Ed Diener, from the Universities of Rochester (MZ and CL),Virginia and Utah (ED), present an exchange model of religion. They build upon a trail blazed in 2016 by Norenzayan and collaborators on the cultural evolution of religion. These comments...

Saint Augustine formulated Original Sin in order to justify infant baptism. The theological concept turned out to be very useful. It became Christian doctrine. Augustine postulated that Original Sin was transmitted through procreation. The sexual union was the path of descent. Today, this implies...

Giovanni Maddelena, at the University of Molise, publishes an article in the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy in June, 2017. The title is "Jung and Peirce: Towards a Psychosynthesis". Charles Peirce, the founder of postmodern semiotics, writes around the same time as...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primer address...

In Philosophy of Nature (1935), Jacques Maritain spends six full pages on Emile Meyerson, a contemporary French reactionary to Positivist judgment. Like Maritain Meyerson is concerned with the epistemology of phenomena. How does the scientific intellect work? Miguel Espinoza, at the University of...

For 40 years, George Murphy has been examining the sciences from the viewpoint of the Trinity. In this article, he first considers how Christians came to appreciate the Trinitarian nature of God, especially when it comes to creation. God cooperates with creatures, respecting the capacities and limitations...