By: Stefania Tarasut on July 2, 2014
I walk away from Terry Eagleton’s book Culture and the Death of God with one thought, “The Almighty, has proved remarkably difficult to dispose of… Rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated: he has now put himself back on the agenda…” (ix) I’m also reminded of the cliché and over used quote credited to…
By: Clint Baldwin on June 30, 2014
To summarize and render a text a fairly complete injustice — God’s hard to get rid of. There you go. Done. Point is that some of the greatest minds and cultural movements have tried really intriguing ways to get rid of God, but…no dice. That is, God might metamorphosize and/or lie dormant for a while,…
By: Miriam Mendez on June 29, 2014
For some weird reason there was a song stuck in my head as I began to read this book. The song was one that, as a young child, I remembered from Sunday Bible School: “God is not dead, he is still alive—I feel God in my feet (stomp, stomp), I feel God in my hands…
By: rhbaker275 on June 27, 2014
“Is ‘God Is Dead’ Dead?” I began my undergraduate studies in the mid-nineteen sixties. It was a time of turbulence and turmoil. President Lynden Johnson rapidly escalated the Vietnam War when he took office following the assassination of President John Kennedy. The social, political and economic upheaval and chaos were rooted in the expanding civil…
By: Richard Volzke on June 27, 2014
This week’s reading directly illustrated the fact that religion is being removed from culture across the globe. Eagleton begins by referencing a 2011 survey from Britain which concluded that, “61 per cent of the respondents claimed to have a religion, but only 29 per cent of them claimed to be religious.”[1] I’m not sure if…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on June 27, 2014
The parable goes like this….“Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: “I seek God! I seek God!”—-As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got…
By: Julie Dodge on June 27, 2014
Last night I took myself out for a lovely Lebanese dinner while reading Terry Eagleton’s Culture and the Death of God.[i] A you ng family of four came in shortly after I, and was seated across from me. I couldn’t help but be enamored by them; the dad engaging consciously with his young son, while…
By: Telile Fikru Badecha on June 27, 2014
Culture and the Death of God by Eagleton Terry is interesting but admittedly I needed to read it a couple of times to digest his perspective. The author quotes and paraphrases a number of other intellectuals’ works which are perfectly relevant to his viewpoints and require his readers to be familiar with the sources he…
By: Michael Badriaki on June 27, 2014
Terry Eagleton’ book titled “Culture and the death of God” picked my interested for particular reasons. From the onset, I was impressed by Eagleton’s evidently brilliant layout of the changing relationship in religious affairs, mythology and art during the enlightenment through modernity and in post modernity. During the course of reading Eagleton’s literature, I found…
By: Carol McLaughlin on June 27, 2014
First things first, I felt a lot like Marlin trying to understand the turtle in the movie Finding Nemo, “You’re cute, kid, but I can’t understand a thing you’re saying.” While I recognize the value and need for us to discuss and unpack the differing influences from the Enlightenment and the transition from modernity to…
By: Bill Dobrenen on June 26, 2014
In his very philosophical and satirical style, Terry Eagleton[1] attempts to uncover the flaws in modern philosophical thought that have attempted to defame religion, specifically Christianity, in Western culture. His style is very academic; yet he occasionally comes up for air to interpret and relate to a non-academic mind. Eagleton, to his credit, is arguing…
By: Ashley Goad on June 26, 2014
Last week, I read Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton. Last week, I also spent ten days in a small village outside of Mukono, Uganda. In the middle of a three-acre farm sits Agape Christian Academy and Orphanage. Fourty-four children, all losing one or both parents to AIDS, live here full-time. Another…
By: Liz Linssen on June 26, 2014
According to the UK Office for National Statistics, (ONC), Christianity is officially in steep decline in England and Wales. The figure for those who claim to hold to Christianity across all regions in these countries fell from 71.7 percent in 2001 to 59.3 percent in 2011. [1] Even more dramatic is the sharp increase of…
By: Deve Persad on June 26, 2014
Last week I attended the funeral of a woman, 31 years old, who tragically, inexplicably died. By the estimation of many, she had begun to make straight paths out of the broken roads that had previously defined her. She just graduated from college, seemingly had much to look forward to. However, now her three children…
By: John Woodward on June 25, 2014
At the top of my list of movies I most disliked is Terminator 2. My friends pressured me into see this movie in a theater years ago. I am a light comedy kind of guy, so an intense, shoot ‘em up movie is never to my liking. And this movie was the worst. The bad…
By: Miriam Mendez on June 24, 2014
Growing up in New York City one of the yearly school outings was a trip to Washington D.C. One of our significant points of interests was the Lincoln Memorial. As you walk in, lying between the north and south chambers is the central hall containing an enormous white marble statue of Abraham Lincoln. According to…
By: Julie Dodge on June 23, 2014
“Here’s the truth: ‘finding’ time is a myth.”[i] I’ve never been a highly disciplined person. I work well to deadlines, but pacing myself for something without a deadline has always been a challenge. When I care about something, however, I make time to do it. And what do I care about? People, mostly. The problem…
By: Michael Badriaki on June 23, 2014
Doris Kearns Goodwin’ book “Team of Rivals” was a knee read because it covers an extraordinary period of American history. The author’s narrative focus is on the sixteenth president of the United States of American Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet. The stage is set with the scene of the national Republican convention in Chicago in…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on June 20, 2014
This book is a totally believable world of blood thirsty vampires in the mid 19th century where our hero Lincoln slays his way to the White House. The action, the suspense, what a great read. There are even pictures that prove all of it to be true……Oh, sorry wrong book. We were suppose to read…
By: Julie Dodge on June 20, 2014
Would I follow that guy who got the job I wanted? It was an unlikely thing that Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. His Republican competitors, by outward appearances, were far more qualified. William Henry Seward had a stellar political career as Governor of New York, and U.S. Senator. Salmon Chase served as Governor…
