The Armstrong Archives: Eschatological Horizons with DBH
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- David Armstrong used to write a delightful Substack newsletter called "A Perennial Digression," for which he also recorded several interviews. He has, for various reasons--mostly having to do with time--ceased writing and recording for the publication. The contents are still available online (somewhere), and he has kindly provided me copies of the four interviews he recorded with me.
Watched this when it was on the other Dave’s channel. Great stuff as always!
thanks for reposting
For what it’s worth, in one of his lectures on Buddhism, Swami Sarvapriyananda from the Ramakrishna Order argues that Nagarjuna’s “emptiness of all philosophies” (emptiness of the concept of emptiness itself) is not necessarily just an corollary of ontic co-dedendent arising, but the ontological flipside of the Advaita Vedantic coin. In other words, the emptiness of emptiness is just a flipside of “Neti, neti” and has more than enough apophatic and paradoxical juice to point beyond to a transcendent ground in an almost identical logical process as Vedantic discrimination. Swami Sarvapriyananda’s take on Nagurjuna would probably not be accepted by orthodox Buddhist hardliners but I think you have to be quite dogmatic to be incapable of smelling any possible whiff of transcendence in Nagurjuna’s doctrine of emptiness taken to its ultimate conclusion. I’m still with you as far as preferring Vedanta as they don’t beat around the transcendental bush in the name of enlightened pragmatism but I do think at bottom Nagurjana is not dealing with the purely ontic.
i do love these conversations and digressions, thank you for making them available again. I’d like to learn more about yogacara. Is there a good introduction around?
I read an article recently which mentioned commonalities between yogacaran idealism and the thought of Karl Jaspers and later writings of Husserl. Are they similar?
Dr. Hart, forgive me if this is an dumb question, but if general resurrection is interpreted in this sense (that it occurs upon death), and if this is true for every living soul, in what sense is Christ the first fruits of the resurrection? Thank you.
I don’t know what sense you mean.
@@leavesinthewind7441 sorry, the Friday night partying may have made me a bit a hard to understand. If I’m understanding you and David correctly, then the parousia (and thus the general resurrection) is something that transcends history and is atemporal, like the fall of rational creatures, and follows upon death. From our perspective, then, every person who has died before us, including those before Christ, has entered into the general resurrection. I’m wondering what this would mean for understanding Christ as the “first fruits” of the resurrection.
@@jacobkats3670 That is one among many ways in which the New Testament seems to use language of the final resurrection, and in each context the theology of Christ as risen appears differently. The language of first fruits comes from Paul, and he certainly believed that before Christ none had been raised, out of death or through the spheres. Only in Mark does resurrection seem to be used to mean the normal postmortem state of the righteous.
@@leavesinthewind7441 I see. Thank you!
David, you have to watch Avatar the Last Airbender
Bless David Armstrong, he has no idea how to deal with DBH's sense of humour. lol
David, do you think that the lake of fire is what's going on outside the city walls in Revelation 22:15 or is referring to those that have already been through this symbolic lake of fire, that is to say whether this vision was accurate or not. Even with my Concordant Literal New Testament rendering, it's still confusing to me in many ways. It's beautifully written but still challenging for someone like myself that also has ADHD as David does, plus an abundance of other potential undiagnosed issues. I never mean to put you on the spot but if I have an opportunity, I'll usually try and take it. I'm slowly finishing and enjoying your books (I'll grab a copy of your second addition too) and will pick up the pace on them as soon as I can sort out some other things happening in my life. Anyway, yeah, the lake of fire, sorry, I got off topic. I guess the 'log of life" is the same as the "tree of life"? I don't have my copy with me at our apartment but I think that's how it's written. I need to research these things harder, I suppose. This is a re-upload? That, or I'm experiencing some serious deja vu!
We all miss David but he's not really active online anymore. Hes moved on to better things (may God bless us all the same) This isn't Dave's chanel.
Which David?
@@leavesinthewind7441 This isn't DBH channel?
I assume it's Armstrong (?).
He's moved on?
He's passed?
30:15
Man, I really miss A Perennial Digression.
So do I.
DBH: I'd love it if you could respond to this question: what is your view of the Vimalakirti Sutra?
It’s one of the great jewels of the Mahayana, and among my favorites.
@@leavesinthewind7441 mine too. and as this worked the first time, I'll try my luck again: after reading "That all shall be saved" (part 1 in particular) I wonder, what are thoughts on Gurdjieff? or Kierkegaard for that matter? if you've written on them in the past, I beg your pardon and would be grateful for any references to those works. shalom
What a delightful chat. I guess we'll never know what point you were going to make about Philippians at 27:34 (sadface). Which Anantanand Rambachan book is being referenced at 1:04:38 btw?
He returns to his point about Philippians @ 33:40
Blessings to both of you . Really appreciate these pearls of your wisdom and erudition DBH . Oh , incidentally, has a newer edition of your New Testament translation been published yet ?
It’s available now. Technically it appears in March.
The beard looks epic DBH! Keep it growing my friend.
It makes the decisions.
@@leavesinthewind7441 HA!
@@leavesinthewind7441 BTW, I read your translation of the New Testament at night to my two young boys (10 & 12). They love it. Thank you, and we’re excited to get your revised edition.