Spiritual Transformation and Non-Violent Action
An interpretation of Mahatma Gandhi’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent movements as ventures for reforming society that are rooted in altruism and spiritual transformation.
An interpretation of Mahatma Gandhi’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent movements as ventures for reforming society that are rooted in altruism and spiritual transformation.
From the Metanexus lecture series “By Nature Creators: Coming to Terms with Human Nature” I. Creating Meaning in a World of Surplus Ideas If this were a sermon, its text would be a passage from Paul Ricoeur’s book, Interpretation Theory: “Because our experience of the world provokes more ideas than we have words to express…
From the Metanexus lecture series “By Nature Creators: Coming to Terms with Human Nature” I. What’s at Issue? The issues at the heart of this evening’s presentation are illustrated in a very ordinary experience I had last week. For the past two or three months, I had noticed a red patch growing on my thumb. …
From the Metanexus lecture series “By Nature Creators: Coming to Terms with Human Nature” I. Created to be Creators I introduce my presentation this evening and those that follow in this series by commenting on three facets of this work: what it’s about; the form it takes; its genre or type of literature. What It’s…