Bruce Charlton's Notions

Continuing on the theme of death and dying ; and exploring the idea that the greatly extended lifespan in The West nowadays may have a spiri...

If Romantic Christianity is an insistence that the individual (rather than a ny external authority, such as a church or a prescribed-inter...

In spiritual life here-and-now; it seems to be A Bad Idea to be too specific about what we want to achieve; because then there is a danger t...

William Wildblood has published an excellent post about a subject that almost nobody (in Western civilization) thinks about, except when co...

We want significance in our lives; but we fear it too.  Significance implies that what we think, say and do has permanence and universality;...

I have noticed a big difference in the way I think about the way I think about theology, compared with almost everyone else.  Which is: tha...

The basic problem afflicting the "traditional" ways of theorizing about Jesus ; is that they were doing theology or philosophy wit...

It seems to me that the religion of Christianity - as expressed in the major churches  (variously, since very early in church history); was...

That we spontaneously take sides is evident whenever we watch any kind of contest - such as a sport... We find-ourselves rooting for one or ...

Joining-up a couple of dots from what I've said; when Jesus met Nicodemus and told him that Men need to be "born again" - Je...

My understanding of dreams is that their specific content, their details; are much less important than their general theme and emotional ton...

John 14: [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also....

People seem to think that becoming a Christian is an answer: the answer.  They think; if they can only become the right kind of Christian -...

It is possible some of my readers do not know that remarkably... memorable image of our Saviour " Buddy Christ " - which was a bri...

We know (ought, by now, to realize) that our leaders are puppets - but not all the same kind of puppet.  The point is distraction - to have...

[The aim of alchemy was] to hasten the ... processes of nature by precipitating matter through stages of decay and decomposition into a new ...

I have previously written about the strange way that things fall into sevens ; but it is also well known that seven is usually primary in a ...

From the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game I am re-reading Wizards: a history , by Peter G Maxwell-Stuart (2004); and reflecting on the use of ceremonial...

It was in the middle 1980s that I began to publish scientific papers and publish them in professional journals. And this activity naturally ...

Why do people still have faith in inverted institutions? Why, that is, do people still assume - and live on the basis that - institutions/ o...

There has usually been, and commonly, a yearning for a Messiah - a deliverer or saviour of a people or the world.  The deep problem is not ...