Prof Keith Ward, FBA: The Philosophy of Idealism in India and the West One of the first religious books I read was by Radhakrishnan, who expounds an Indian version of Idealism. Later I came across Hegel, a German Idealist who seemed to have no idea of the depth of Indian […]
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Dr. Bhaktivijnana Muni: Towards a more Harmonious Concept through the Synthesis of Vedanta and Science Although Science and Technology have made great advances, we still lack comprehensive concepts about life. Biology has not been able to explain the concept of life. The frontiers of Science in the 21st century are […]
Dr Ravi Ravindra has played a critical role in education Templeton Foundation & other Christian intellectuals on how to digest Vedanta ideas to boost and reinvent Christianity in a scientific manner. Rajiv Malhotra brings this out systematically, and both sides discuss the pros/cons of this.
By Jo de Groot BSW PhD DipEd 30th March 2017 Introduction In this paper I present the historical development of the Catholic Church’s position on the acceptance of priesthood for males only. Whatever the reasons given, they are without reasonable foundation. I show that the Church is not keeping […]
Belief without Borders: Inside the Minds of the Spiritual but not Religious by Linda A. Mercadante Reviewed by Oliver Robinson There is a demographic revolution going on in the Western world. Several decades back, the label of ‘spiritual but not religious’ (SBNR) did not exist. Now surveys suggest that up to […]
The Reverend Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern day mystic, Episcopal priest and writer. She divides her time between solitude and traveling globally to teach and spread the recovery of the Christian Contemplative and Wisdom Path. Author of several books including, “Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening”, “Wisdom Jesus”, “The Meaning of […]
Born and partly educated in India Ravi Ravindra moved to Canada for further studies. At different times he held Post-doctoral fellowships in Physics (University of Toronto), History and Philosophy of Science (Princeton University) and in Religion (Columbia University). He is now Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax (Canada) where […]
Dr. Alan Wallace – a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970 – has taught Buddhist theory and meditation worldwide since 1976. Having devoted fourteen years to training as a Tibetan Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama, he went on to earn an undergraduate degree in physics […]
Professor Christopher Rowland. In 1991, Dr Rowland was appointed Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford, a post that carries with it a fellowship at The Queen’s College, Oxford. He was appointed Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral in 2005. Bibliography Blake and the Bible, 2011 […]