For the first time since 2020, I am now publishing a major literary production of mine here, on this blog — an essay-like academic paper exclusively devoted to a comprehensive analysis of and certain musings regarding what one might style the ontological nature of Plato’s Good, which, as I believe I have come very close…
Kategori: Philosophy
Christmas Musings on the Origin and Future of True Christianity
Was Plato, by virtue of supernatural insight, or some other paranormal power, a “Christian” nearly four centuries before the Incarnation of the Word? That is what some, when confronted with the exceptionally lofty doctrines of Platonism, and the great similarity between some of them and Christianity, have claimed. I do not entirely reject that as…
A Brief Critique of Religious Empiricism, Logical Positivism, Materialistic Monism and the Anti-Supernaturalism of “N. T. Wright”
Undertaken with the Aid of the Theologia Germanica and Sir A. J. Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic. Or: Countering the Attempt to Entrap the Human Mind in a Verbal Matrix This paper owes its origin to a three-day “home exam” I sat for in November 2018, as part of the master’s program in theology I…
Visions of the Suprarational: A Study of the Concept of Nous in the Works of Plato and St. Augustine of Hippo
My recently completed master’s thesis, which one could say is the culmination of more than ten years of research into the nature of Platonism and Christianity, mysticism and religion, as well as of a very long personal, spiritual journey, is now available for download as an e-book/PDF-file. This is the longest and most significant literary…
Edmund Schilvold: Skribent, fotograf, filosof, friluftsentusiast 