Category Archives: Animal theology

The clean horse of our courage

Posted on July 31, 2011 by

[NASA Image of the Day Gallery: "The Horsehead Nebula, embedded in the vast and complex Orion Nebula, is seen in this representative-color image from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii.  The dark molecular cloud, roughly 1,500 light years distant, is visible … Continue reading →

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There are no pure bodies: The monotheistic spiritual naturalism of Anne Conway, part 4

Posted on July 3, 2011 by

[... continued from last post] White, Carol Wayne, The Legacy of Anne Conway (1631 – 1679) : Reverberations from a Mystical Naturalism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008).  There is no nice way to say it: this is … Continue reading →

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There are no pure bodies: The monotheistic spiritual naturalism of Anne Conway, part 3

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

[... continued from last post] ◊ Nye, Andrea, Feminism and Modern Philosophy : An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2004).  Andrea Nye is an emeritus professor of philosophy whose work, like that of Jane Duran, is steeped in feminist theory.  In … Continue reading →

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There are no pure bodies: The monotheistic spiritual naturalism of Anne Conway, part 2

Posted on June 24, 2011 by

[... continued from last post] ◊ Hutton, Sarah, Anne Conway : A Woman Philosopher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).  I referred to this book in my entry for David Byrne, whose work is in many ways comparable.  Both authors have … Continue reading →

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There are no pure bodies: The monotheistic spiritual naturalism of Anne Conway, part 1

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

The books I was waiting for, re: Anne Conway, have all arrived and I’ve been reading from them diligently.  By happenstance my discovery of Conway coincided with my receiving a “bonus” from my employer, and this enabled me to buy, … Continue reading →

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How I discovered Anne Conway

Posted on June 5, 2011 by

I want to tell how I’ve just come to discover Lady Anne Conway (1631-79).  Not because anyone should care that much as to the “how” of it, but more to illustrate the fortuity that has characterized my unstructured self-education in … Continue reading →

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“He Who Sits in the Heavens Laughs”: Recovering Animal Theology in the Abrahamic Traditions

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

The title of this post is the title of a superb article by Kimberley C. Patton that was published in The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Oct., 2000), pp. 401-434.  Patton is Professor of the Comparative and Historical … Continue reading →

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