Friday, April 1, 2011
Don't miss Larry Solum's fantastic April Fool's scholarly papers. My favorite is the abstract from Richard Posner's piece, "What Do Deities Maximize?" and this line in particular: "Given omnipotence and omniscience, it follows that all states of affairs already accord with the preferences of an omnipotent and omniscient deity, leading to the paradoxical conclusion that rational action by such an entity is impossible."
The best thing about Solum's tom-foolery is its near-plausibility.
It's snowing this morning in Philadelphia, but the Phillies are opening their season at 1:05pm at Citizens Bank Park against the Astros. Hope is a theological virtue in the Christian tradition, and in this instance it's aided by the best pitching rotation in baseball.
Princeton University Press has an intriguing new series. It is discussed by Jeremy F. Walton at the The Immanent Frame. Here is what Princeton has to say about the series together with the current list in the series. Future books in the series can also be found here.
Lives of Great Religious Books is a new series of short volumes that recount the complex and fascinating histories of important religious texts from around the world. Written for general readers by leading authors and experts, these books examine the historical origins of texts from the great religious traditions, and trace how their reception, interpretation, and influence have changed--often radically--over time. As these stories of translation, adaptation, appropriation, and inspiration dramatically remind us, all great religious books are living things whose careers in the world can take the most unexpected turns.
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