Today is December 21, a highly significant date here in Scandinavia and in other places in the world far to the north. The reason is, of course, that this is the date of the Winter Solstice, or of “Vinter-sol-verv”, as it is called in Norwegian, and of all the ancient traditions and celebrations associated with…
Stikkord: egypt
Dagens vedvarende tanke / Today’s persistent thought
20 March 2024: Like most other people, I have made many mistakes, been entranced by many a popular misconception, and been stiff-necked in my naiveté and ignorance at times, but, unlike many of the incarnated beings of this present Age, I will be able to say, when I meet my Pilot Face to Face (as…
Reflections on the «Historicity» of the Exodus
As many are aware of, the Old Testament or the Tanakh (including the Torah) sets forth the extraordinary claim, accepted by traditional “Judaisms” and “Christianities”, that the “Israelites” spent some 400 years in Egypt – many of them as slaves. (Genesis 15:12–14 (“four hundred years”), Exodus 12:39–41 (“four hundred and thirty years”, c.f. Genesis 11:17),…
Why Christian theology studies and a decade of reading ancient texts made me a (Christian) Platonist
In the following, I shall attempt to briefly explain why I am applying for admittance to a doctoral program in philosophy. It may, I freely acknowledge, seem a little odd that someone who has essentially been preparing to become a priest since 2015 would make this decision, at the very time when he is on…
Edmund Schilvold: Skribent, fotograf, filosof, friluftsentusiast 