Evalueringsrapport for institusjonspraksis i emnet PTU4100 Institusjonspraksis med sjelesorg og gudstjeneste [Text in Norwegian; English and German translations below] [Downloadable PDF with text in Norwegian, English and German:] [Kommentar ved Edmund Schilvold: Dette er en ordrett kopi i digital form av rapporten som ble skrevet i kjølvannet av min praksis på Stavanger Universitetssykehus i november…
Stikkord: theology
Porphyry’s revealing tribute to Plotinus
Have you ever read Porphyry’s beautiful tribute to his Master and Guru, the wonderful Plotinus; the Platonic Philosopher-Mystic of whom the famous ancient literary critic Longinus admiringly said «set the principles of Pythagoras and of Plato in a clearer light than anyone before him» (and who may have been a close friend of Origen)? You…
The misconstrual of Plato’s Republic, that St. Augustine quotes Socrates, and other discoveries
Below are some examples of what my master’s thesis in theology and philosophy (which you may download for free, as a PDF, by clicking on this link) achieves in terms of research and discoveries: The elucidation of the surprisingly intimate intellectual relationship between one of the foremost fathers of the Christian churches, St. Augustine of…
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…
Master’s thesis «follow-up»: A new and ground-breaking analysis of the Socratic and Platonic concept of the Good (free 24-page essay/e-book)
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…
