thinktoomuch.net

Pondering the South African Memesphere – Looking for the Good in Everything

thinktoomuch.net header image 4

Entries Tagged with 'Peter Rollins'

From the Eyes of Judas

April 14th, 2009 · 14 Comments

(This was going to be at the bottom of the previous post, but that one grew into a monster and I didn’t want to bury this *that* deep.) Ikon’s Easter Sunday gathering gave me goose bumps. You will need some time if you want to work your way through it, you have to listen to [...]

[Read more →]

Categories: Worldviews
Tags: · · ·

Don’t Consider Christian Fundamentalism “Violent”

February 14th, 2009 · 10 Comments

Peter Rollins, one of my favourite authors-that-I-haven’t-read-yet, but-his-books-are-waiting-on-my-shelf, and-I’ve-read-his-blog (create an acronym out of that one!) has an interesting post: Fundamentalism isn’t too violent, it isn’t violent enough. His primary thought is “fundamentalism is an impotent movement”, and compares it to war. For the truly radically violent, those that are “violent enough”, those that accurately [...]

[Read more →]

Categories: Worldviews
Tags: · ·

Interview with Pete Rollins about “The Fidelity of Betrayal”

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Nope, I didn’t interview him. I wish. Pieter sent me a link to a wonderful interview with Pete Rollins, partly discussing his recent book The Fidelity of Betrayal (amazon, kalahari). The interview gives some good perspective on what Pete is on about, and the kind of thing that makes me excited about… well… Christianity, though [...]

[Read more →]

Categories: Worldviews
Tags:

The God of Faith and the God of the Philosophers

July 23rd, 2008 · 10 Comments

About four weeks ago, Theo Geyser introduced me to Peter Rollins — unfortunately not personally, he just mentioned his latest book. At home, I immediately took a look at Peter’s blog. One of the first posts I read, as it caught my eye and resonated with my ways and thoughts: To be an atheist you [...]

[Read more →]

Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: ·