User:Rursus/Lynx/Lynx-4

Hollaa-hollaa-ism
User:Rursus/Lynx/Lynx-4 (I'm 1 of dhem! Beware!!)

Semiotics

 * Terrence Deacon, anthropologist that criticises memetics, and calls it a "degenerate" sign in semiotics.

Christian evolutionism
Sources found in The God Delusion:
 * Kenneth R. Miller, RCC prof biologist,
 * Richard Swinburne, EOC prof philosophy, flawed God-models,
 * Keith Ward, AC priest, philosopher etc,
 * Arthur Peacocke, AC theologian and biochemist

AC anglican, LC lutheran, EOC eastern orthodox, OOC oriental orthodox, PC calvinist, RCC roman catholic.

Googling for sources: This is becoming ridiculous! There is a general and very populous tendency that could without doubt be called "Christian Evolutionism" as a reaction against the creationists, except it is huge, it evokes very little media interest, and it is unorganized. Read this:
 * Kevin L. O'Brien: "Statement from a Christian Evolutionist"
 * The Fish Wars – indicating that the Creationist controversy is not a Christianity vs. Science war, but a Christianity vs. Creationists war - Wendee Holtcamp attaining the same Christian standpoint as me: this is Jesus vs. the father of Lies.
 * One 19th century Christian evolutionist: Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott.
 * , a site for discussing the evangelical perspective on evolution (approximately Christian Evolutionists),
 * , having a lot of trouble with creationists after making an evolutionist statement
 * , evolutionist Davidheiser vs. ???ist Bube
 * , central tenets
 * , having a lot of trouble with creationists after making an evolutionist statement
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 * Mark Steel about creationism

Evolutionistically compatible theologies

 * Christian existentialism
 * Postmodern Christianity
 * Process theology
 * Theistic evolution

Oddity
Christian Reconstructionism

Smartness

 * Confabulation - this article provides a model for memories! The link to religion is weaker, the link to cults is presumably very strong.

Adopted

 * D. M. Canright a smart guy outside 7th d adventism (Millerites).
 * Francisco J. Ayala, evolutionist christian Templetonpristagare: evolutionen en gåva till religionen

Criteria
Use the so called Wesleyan Quadrilateral (belongs to Outler) with extensions as valuation criteria:

The malformed WP:OR should be modified to propone original-research-like reasoning on the talk pages, whenever necessary to reach consensus, otherwise WP:OR is necessary on the article in order for WP still being an encyclopedia.

Catechisms
Dunno know whattodo, but maybe find and compare the theologies:
 * Catechism of the Catholic Church - Roman catholic
 * Roman Catechism - Roman catholic
 * Catechism of Saint Pius X - Roman catholic
 * Baltimore Catechism - Roman catholic
 * Dutch Catechism - some catholic
 * Catechism of the Catholic Church - Roman catholic
 * Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church - Roman catholic
 * United States Catholic Catechism for Adults - wow! Roman catholic
 * Luther's Large Catechism - Lutheran
 * Luther's Small Catechism - Lutheran
 * Genevan catechism - early reformed with Calvin's preface
 * Heidelberg Catechism - Calvinist
 * Westminster Larger Catechism - Presbyterian and other reformed
 * Book of Common Prayer - Anglican
 * Rakow Catechism - Socinian
 * baptist catechisms
 * anabaptist catechisms
 * Jewish principles of faith - map the degree of acceptance

Truth

 * Pragmatism, means that truths are accepted acc2 what works in a certain context – or, say, given a certain context, if a saying provides relevant, usable and correctly working information, then it is true in that context;
 * Agrippa the Sceptic, thought that he disproved knowledge, but instead implies the global circularity of knowledge and the infinity of implication chains: this is just the web of the human knowledge base; and using fuzzy logic, this global web of knowledge is orientable and practically navigable;
 * Two Dogmas of Empiricism, a "debunking" of Empiricism that propones a holistic truth;
 * Theory of justification, measures on what constitutes reliable and not reliable arguments for proponing a statement (true or not); most relevant:
 * Infinitism,
 * Foundherentism.


 * Social constructionism, the methods with which we construct our image of reality: of proofs, conventions and accepted methods; partially true, but missing the point unless holistic implication webs and fuzzy logic is used; in order to define (not prove!!) a truth model, one may follow two pseudo-circular forms:
 * from an axiomatic model of the truth web, derive a proving scenario (X says U->V to Y, Y does U, V follows, Y observes V, Y conceives U->V to be a true statement, etc.),
 * from an informal proving model scenario indicate rhetorically/logically that it is reasonable to believe that correct acts is the most reasonable effect of using that model scenario as a pattern for "proofs".

Practical truth

 * Religion is an apparatus that regulates the individuals behaviors and choices ― in the best of worlds this apparatus is in the control of the individuals themselves, given a cultural least common denominator that is provided to ensure the necessary collective/cultural flow of impulses for the individual to use in his/her self-administered personal growth. Relation between religion and science is a determining factor for the evolution of a society, lack of religion fragments and lead to collapse in bloody civil wars, lack of science leads to a primitive backward society that slowly declines to extinction.

― User:Rursus cites Rursus Siderespector (himself).

The path of Science in medieval Islam to the post-reformation West (not excluding Roman Catholicism, of course!).

Reading list: Rediscovering Arabic Science by Richard Covington. List to follow:


 * Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, the inventor of algebra and algorithms (i.e. placing him level with Euclid and Newton), Persian (ca800),
 * Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar (ca830), the translator of Syntaxis into Almagest, and also of Euclid,
 * Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi the great astronomical pioneer, Persian (903–986),
 * Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī Persian mathematician/astronomer (940–998),
 * Pope Sylvester II French mathematician/astronomer (ca950-1003) - note the "Christian" habit to blackpaint scientists as sorcerers, something still remaining in the fringe "Christianity" of literal-interpreters (but see [2 Cor 3:6] about literal interpretations, this clause, given the full New Testament context, declares literalism "Death", i.e. "Christianity without resurrection", which by Christian doctrines is not Christianity, and as far as I've heard from a jew friend, not Judaeism either),
 * Ibn Yunus Egyptian astronomer (950-1009), Zij al-Kabir al-Hakimi,
 * Alhazen Persian (ca965-ca1039), Shi'a,
 * Abu Rayhan Biruni, Persian astronomer (973-1048), Shi'a,
 * Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Toledan-Andalusian astronomer (1028–1087), Sunni,
 * Adelard of Bath English Western (ca1080 – ca1152) Romecatholic, retranslated Euclid from Ibn Matar's version,
 * Nur ad-Din al-Betrugi Moroccan-Andalusian astronomer (ca1130-ca1204), Sunni,
 * Nasir al-Din al-Tusi reformed Ptolemy's geocentric solar system, Persian and Shi'a (1201-1274), Zij-i ilkhani,

Pragmatic science sponsors:
 * Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1220-1250) Romecatholic, extensive discussion with arabic philosophers, extensive translation sponsoring,
 * Alfonso X of Castile, Castilian-Spanish (1221-1284) Romecatholic, extensive translation sponsoring, revision of the Toledo Tables to the Alphonsine Tables,
 * Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor Bohemian-German (1552-1612) formally Romecatholic, sponsor of the Rudolphine Tables (Tycho Brahe's and Johannes Kepler's masterpiece)
 * Ulugh Beg, Mongol-Persian (ca1393–1449), Zij-i-Sultani,

Other

 * Adventism: Dale Ratzlaff, Walter T. Rea, (Robert Brinsmead, a general critic of mainstream), D. M. Canright, (Ronald Numbers, a general critic of among others Anti-evolutionism: the book The Creationists), (Richard Wright (author), also interesting for temporarily joining another cult),

Angels of Mons
Angels of Mons is an incredibly interesting article on what motivates people to make moral sagas, and what factually occurred.

Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism, as I define it, is an idiosyncracy against applying intellectual methods in biblical and religious reasoning. In the first and earliest definition by those who coined "fundamenta" and called themselves "fundamentalists", the hate-phrase was "liberal theology", and they deliberately misrepresented it's meaning to get a rhetorical twist to their own "position". Fundamentalism is not based on specific fundamenta, it is based on randomly picked fundamenta, and a general labelization of everything else as evil. It is systemic psycho-split.
 * a fundamentalist site (per me) criticising fundamentalism,
 * Terry Mattew's splendid historical discourse
 * The World of Fundamentalism, Robert Wuthnow
 * The Origins and Nature of Fundamentalism in Society Niccolo Caldararo

Creationism

 * the true psychology behind "Creationism" says someone...

Lingayatism

 * lingayathism.net, precise and full info,
 * a christian mission instruction refering to the history of Lingayatism.

Gnosticism
Gnosticism is essentially a marketing label: "we know it all!". They subdivide as:
 * True gnostics: 1. only the pneumatics will be saved, 2. the evil universe cannot be reformed, 3. the gnostic "knowledge" is necessary for liberation from the evil universe, 4. good acts are to no avail,
 * Hoellerite quasi-gnostics, using the scriptures but not the gnostic cosmology,
 * The "occult" block:
 * Spiritualist new-agers, f.ex. thelemists
 * Magicians around the faulty samaritism-as-gnosticism theory,
 * Crowleyans


 * Pseudo-gnostics, digging into the life force, but not using gnostic cosmologies,


 * Pseudo-gnostics:
 * GNOSTIC LIBERATION FRONT - pseudognostic rebellionist(s).


 * Hoellerites:
 * Stephan A. Hoeller - the non-political truth-speaking symphathetic scholar of modern Valentinian Gnosticism par excellence, associated to Ecclesia Gnostica, that nicely enough have a concept of making the world a better place,


 * "Occult" block:
 * The Gnostic Movement - a business site teaching common spiritualist new-ager concepts, where the gnosis went I don't know,
 * And their friend http://www.belzebuub.com/ ! (ROTFL!!),


 * Gnostic Templars - a fake history alleging a connection to the Knights Templars, extreme new-agers,
 * Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis, EGnU, per own statement thelemic, therefore new-agers, have nothing to do with gnosticism whatsoever.
 * Ordo Templi Orientis, Crowleyans

Cults

 * Livets Ord
 * sv:Livets Ord
 * Word of Faith
 * sv:Trosrörelsen