Introduction to the Journals

of Philip McPherson Rudisill

Postings Since 12/8/07 are made as blogs.

Disclaimer: The reader should realize that I seldom reread what I have recorded in a journal, and thus many will not be well editied. And only recent journals represent my current thinking about the respective topics.

Journal of 9/14/07. Wondering about the elements in the Muslim fanatic.

Journal of 10/29/06. A sympathetic look at Abraham's deliberations concerning the commanded slaying of his son. Abraham is guilty of Kant's charge, but is free of sin.

Journal of 10/22/06. Evangelistic program for the conversion of Muslims.

Journal of 10/15/06. Mohammed seen as free of demonic influences and a good man who was a visionary, or affected by God, or the epitome of Plato's Noble Liar.

Journal of October 14, 2006. Sympathetic inquiry concerning Mohammed leads Christian writer to a surprising synthesis and conclusion.

Journal of October 1, 2006. A division of the talk of Jesus and Paul, especially with regard to the atoning death and resurrection.

Journal of September 29, 2006. Perspective on the Paulian or Gentile Christain approach to evangelizing Muslims.

Journal of September 17, 2006. Tips for evangelizing Muslims. This is a new draft of an idea for Christian evangelists who are interested in Muslims. This may end up as an essay someday. Presently it is in rough condition.

Journal of Sepember 16, 2006. The greatest and most vaunted strength of the Muslim is his downfall--the lack of clarity in the reputed divine dictation obtained by Mohammed. The great superiority of the inspired work of Paul with regard to clarity.

Journal of September 4, 2006. Sketch of approach in evangelizing Muslims for Christianity which focuses on the idea of the clarity of a divine dictation and that of an divine inspiration.

Journal of August 13,2006. Role of atonement. Need for a "second chance." Role of the resurrection. Brief of an evangelistic program for the conversion of Muslims to Christianity.

Journal of June 4, 2006. Idea of Highest Good as unifier of a rationality otherwise split into pursuit of happiness versus morality. And the need of a unified rationality for the sake of morals and rationality itself.

Journal of April 1, 2006. An overview of a proposal for a world religion. The case for the suicide bomber, and fate and free will in the Islamic conception. Christian and motivation for reward.

Journal of March 28, 2006. Islam and Christianity compared in the case of Abraham trying to kill his son. A clear demarcation appears here between a moral and an immoral faith.

Journal of March 26, 2006. Role of reason in the discernment of a divine communication. The foundation for the moral criteria.

Journal of March 5, 2006. God, Demon and Man in possible juxtaposition, and how it is possible to discern between them.

Journal of March 2, 2006. The moment according to the Buddhist and the Christian. Mohammed as fraud. Validation of Paul's message through experience. Clarity, universality and moral core of Paul's communication.

Journal of February 16, 2006. Overall evaluation of the revelations of Abraham, Paul, Mohammed and Joseph Smth in terms of moral core, clarity of message and its possible validation in experience.

Journal of February 12, 2006. Excepts. An attempted reconciliation of Kant and Paul with regard to the death of Jesus.

Journal of February 8, 2006. A program for the subjugation of all alleged revelations to right reason and with special focus on the revelations of Abraham, Paul, Mohammed and Joseph Smith.

Journal of February 7, 2006. Evangelizing the Muslim by confronting the Muslim tale with the Morman tale and by developing the "binity" of Christ which joins Jesus spiritually with his follower. Main focus will be on Paul and only through him and his experience to Jesus, and for very good practical reasons.

Journal of February 4, 2006. Evangelizing the Muslim by confronting the Muslim tale with the Morman tale and by developing the "binity" of Christ which joins Jesus spiritually with his follower.

Journal of December 11, 2005. Kant on moral religion, and the case of the Christian evangelist

Journal of December 3, 2005. The Zacchaeen and Believer's congregations of the Christian Church.

Journal of November 19, 2005. Comparing the revelations of Jesus, Paul, Smith and Mohammed in terms of moral status and belief in the atonement and resurrection.

Journal of October 30, 2005. What Paul adds to Kant's moral salvation equation. Also Kant’s Religion, Preface, Par. 2, fashioning a world.

Journal of October 28, 2005. Toying with extreme examples of "lawless" and dogma- and history-free congregations in the Christian Church.

Journal of October 26, 2005. Musings on things Kantian, Christian and Islamic. summarizing Kant's Religion Within The Bounds Of Sheer Reason

Journal of October 23, 2005. Musings on things Kantian, Christian and Islamic. Theory of existence.

Journal of October 22, 2005. Kant's rational religion from an actual descent into evil. Use boxing gloves on the Christian and the Islamic faiths and let everyone decide as he or she will.

Journal of 10/21/05. Kant's analysis of the expression of "accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior". Two fronts against the Islamic conception. Islam as an antique religion.

Journal of October 16, 2005. Jesus' revelation and Paul's revelation. The Christian religion and the Christian church. The role of belief.

Journal of 10/15/05. Showing that if the Christian religion and church did not exist that they ought to be invented and promoted. Inspired by Kant's critique of religion.

Journal of October 10, 2005. Jesus as seen through the eyes of Paul and with reference to evangelizing Muslims. Very Kantian.

Journal of October 1, 2005. Christian religion, versus church versus faith. Evangelizing Muslims. Kant's transition from morality to religion.

Journal of August 28, 2005. Sketch of an appeal to the heart and mind of the Muslim in favor of Christianity.

Journal of August 27, 2005. The contextual interpretation of the liberty of the Paulian (gentile) Christian.

Journal of August 19, 2005. The procedure for awakening the Mulsim mind from his "dogmatic slumber"

Journal of August 18,2005. Christianity and Islam. Christian evil due to peterian form. Reform calls for Paulians who are best suited to deal with Muslims.

Jounal of August 12, 2005. Musing on Paul and Mohammed and their respective visions of Jesus, among other things.

Journal of August 11, 2005. A fanciful discussion between three brothers, one an atheist, one a Muslim and one (the author) a Christian. A continuation where the atheist believes in God and will choose between Christianity and Islam.

Journal of August 9, 2005. A fanciful discussion between three brothers, one an atheist, one a Muslim and one (the author) a Christian.

Journal of August 4, 2005. Kant's "natural evil of humans" with respect to it also being a voluntary evil.

Journal of July 7, 2005. Exposition of the solution of Kant's Third Antinomy on freedom versus necessity of nature; and then on the Highest Good as necessitated by practical reason; and finally opening thoughts on a rational religion.

Journal of July 1, 2005. Argument for the authenticity of Paul's revelation and against that of Mohammed. See also draft essay Paul versus Mohammed.

Journal of June16, 2005. Instruction to human children concerning the recognition and discernment of the divine, the demonic and the human with regard to alleged revelations of God. Exemplary focus on Paulian Christianity and Islam.

Journal of June14, 2005. Instruction to human children concerning the recognition and discernment of the divine, the demonic and the human with regard to alleged revelations of God. Exemplary focus on Paulian Christianity and Islam.

Journal (excerpts) of May 30, 2005. An introduction for Christian evangelists to Muslims. The demonic hypothesis with regard to Islam (and also to Christianity). The superiority of the Christian story of transmission of divine "guidance" over the complex transmission of the Islamic story.

Journal of May 26, 2005. Kant's "natural evil" in man and a brief treatment of Religion Within The Bounds Of Reason Alone. Also respect for moral law and the death of Jesus.

Journal of May 19, 2005. The most amazing story in religious history, Jesus gives the keys to the kingdom to the disciples and they in turn, yielding to the behest of Paul and Peter, relieve the gentile Christian of allegience to any law (other than the law of love).

Journal of May 8, 2005. History of Christian church in terms of Peterians and Paulians (analogy of the glove). Abraham as Islam's Great Slave. Brief argument concerning the acceptability of [Pauline] Christianity and unacceptability of Islam with regard to the faith of Abraham.

Journal of April 17, 2004. Need for Jesus' death. Attacking Muslims. Glove people. 3rd Antinomy. Koran & science.

Journal of April 14, 2005. Jesus's intimate talk with disciples. Death of Jesus (also about Judas). Atonement. Muslim and limits.

Journal of April 12, 2005. Tales of Abraham, Allah's Great Slave. Muslim and Jewish takes on the Abraham stories. In pursuit of the Moral Icon of the communications of God

Journal of April 7, 2005. Abraham story as the key for understanding the moral stance of Islam. Examination of Kant's claim of Islam as an extortionist religion. Uses of Joseph Smith and Mormonism in awakening the Muslim.

Journal of April 2, 2005. Superiority of the Mormon story over the Muslim story, and the superiority of the Pauline story over both. Kant's indictment of Abraham and a Christian's defense and a presumed Muslim's defense.

Journal of March 27, 2005. Final struggle, between Free Man and Slave Man. Christianity represents Free Man in the struggle against Islam. Justification of the actions of Abraham and an utter rejection of any interpretation of a divine guidance which calls for an immoral act.

Journal of March 22, 2004. A call for chastity on the part of the heterosexual and homosexual Christian youth of White County. Quick considereation of Kant's work on religion.

Journal of March 15, 2005. Musing on God's way and man's way, and how God incorporates man's way into His own way.

Journal of March 13, 2005. Comparison of the moral make up of Islam, Christianity and the Mafia. And also consideration of Christian accountability partners among heterosexuals and homosexuals for mutual edification and also to enable the heterosexual to comprehend the heart of the homosexual.

Journal of March 6, 2005. Concise comparison of the reasoning of the reliability of transmission of the holy works of Islam, Mormonism and Pauline Christianity

Journal of February 22, 2005. A Christian's Proposal to Declare Himself a Muslim.

Journal of January 30, 2005. Synopsis of Paul's conception of the Gentile Christian

Journal of January 23, 2005. Sketch of a critique of right thinking from the recognition of the illusions of the eye to a critique of a rational religion.

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