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Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Speaker Meaning and the Interpretation and Construction of Executive Orders

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Here is an abstract of my latest article posted on SSRN : ABSTRACT: This Article explores the interpretation and construction of execu...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

A Sonnet on the Jerusalem Cross

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For me, the Jerusalem Cross is endlessly inspiring:   Christ before Paul; the Kingdom that’s within; the wisdom of the Buddha; Will...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

"Nature Hath Framed Strange Fellows" William Shakespeare and Natural Law

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A. Introduction                            Natural law theorists might turn to The History of Troilus and Cressida to start ...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Gorsuch and Originalism: Some Critiques from Logic, Scripture, and Art

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(This blog combines, expands, and end-notes two prior blogs)
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Rethinking The Elect

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                            The Elect Take that long-suffering slave:   if she instead Were master, could descent dissent and shed ...
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Beyond Words Alone: Poets as Artists of the Intentional

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  In his wonderful The New Book of Forms , Lewis Turco tells us that poets “ focus on mode , on language itself.”   Focusing ...
Saturday, July 9, 2016

Double Sonnet of William James: Grace That Brings Good Order in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Double Sonnet of William James                                    I .    Descartes, pure mind and body can't ...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Ezekiel: The Universe Leaps Over Heart & Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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Ezekiel’s Double Sonnet                                                                             (A prophet of the exile)              ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Daniel: Nighttime Hieroglyphics in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Daniel’s Sonnet    (A Jew “exiled” in Babylon) Through deepest faith, I tapped night's lexicon That Nimrod changed. ...

Augustine: Faith Must Come First (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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          Augustine’s Lines and Acrostic                      (A bishop of Hippo) Si fallor, sum! I no doubt must exist However fr...
Friday, June 17, 2016

The Nicodemus Paradox (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Nicodemus's Double Sonnet I saw the merit of that holy man.   I showed Him bold respect in public and I sat Beside ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

How the "Ten" Commandments Refute Originalism & Fundamentalism (With Some Help From Herod, Caiaphas & Ahab's Additions to "The Apology Box")

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Conservatives often like to claim that texts speak for themselves.  A review of the Ten  Commandments is an easy way to see how such claim...

Judas & Pilate Defend Themselves (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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            Acrostic of Judas J ustice never punishes a deed U nless it's evil, willed, and freely done. D id I betray?  I did...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Old Testament Words & Rhetoric: Ehud, Elisha, & Jonah (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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           Ehud’s Solid Rhetoric      (Left-handed judge who killed Fat King Eglon) Somehow it seems we have reversed our roles. ...

Abelard: The Peril & the Price of Careless Thought (Addition to the Apology Box)

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                         Abelard’s Ballade Thought is the cruelest place where charts mark no Fixed latitude or constancy of shore...