Andrew J. Brown

#thought #seedling

Brown has sympathies with the Free Religion (自由宗教 — jiju shukyo) advocated by Shin'ichirō Imaoka.

Conversations

Andrew's Influences

jiyu shukyo
Jodo Shinsu buddhism
Christian atheism
D.G. Leahy's thinking now occuring for the first time
Lucretian inspired religious naturalism
New materialism
Kyoto school philosophy

Paul Weinpahl
Herbert Fingarette
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Epicurus
Lucretius
Parmenides
Heraclitus
Benedict Spinoza
Friedrich Nietzsche
Gerrard Winstanley
Jacob Bauthumley
Anne Conway
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Martin Heidegger
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leo Tolstoy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Søren Kierkegaard
David Hume
Ernst Bloch
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Paul Tillich
Henry Nelson Wieman
James Luther Adams
John F. Hayward
Josiah Royce
Paul Wienpahl
Klaas Hendrikse
Norbert Fabián Čapek
Agnes Arber
Thomas Altizer
D. G. Leahy
Michael McGhee
Charles Hartshorne
D.T. Suzuki
Hajime Tanabe
Keiji Nishitani
Kitaro Nishida
Kiyozawa Manshi,
Imaoka Shin'ichirō
Donald A. Crosby
Jerome A. Stone
James W. Woelfel
Freya Mathews
Ursula Goodenough
Mary Oliver
Wallace Stevens,
A. R. Ammons
Gianni Vattimo
Franco "Bifo"Berardi
John D. Caputo
James C. Edwards
J. L. Schellenberg
Simon Critchley
Knud Ejler Løgstrup
Emanuele Severino
Michael Oakeshott
Henry Bugbee
Edward F. Mooney
Thomas Nail
Vicki Kirby
Karen Barad
Emanuele Coccia
Federico Campagna
Jan Patočka
Jane Bennett

Andrew Brown's intellectual footprints

2007

September

Avignon manifesto

Deep Ecology
Deus sive Natura
Pantheism
Panentheism

The Universal Word by Nels F. S. Ferre
Living toward the age of Unimunity by Ferre and Ferre

October

James Luther Adams, twentieth century Unitarian Christian theologian
Theology
God = God and Nature (Deus sive Natura)
Transforming Liberalism: The Theology of James Luther Adams by George Kimmich Beach
Bronson Alcott
conversation

Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged by Roger Scruton
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Complete Angler: https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/resour/mirrors/rbear/walton/index.html

The Manifold and the One by Agnes Arber

Norwegian philosopher and ecologist Arne Naess
1986 paper called "The Basics of Deep Ecology"
The Deep Ecology platform

Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought by Tim Ingold https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00141840600603111
Animism

November

Victor Nuovo

Soul
Unitarian Christian vs. Unitarian-Universalist

On his translation of jiyū shūkyō

So, you ask whether the inspiration for the term “inquiring religion” for my extended English translation of jiyū shūkyō comes from Wieman’s book. Basically, no, although, of course, I knew he used it. I used the phrase for two reasons. The first is that, as you know, jiyū shūkyō is an inquiring religion! But the second reason is that in the formal, legal object of the General Assembly of Unitarian & Free Christian Churches (the denomination to which the Cambridge church belongs, and of which I am a minister) it uses the phrase “To promote a free and inquiring religion.” It seemed obvious that this might help people connected with the British Unitarian and Free Christian community feel an instant connection with jiyū shūkyō and be interested in thinking about supporting and promoting it. As to whether I am right about this we’ll have to see!

Andrew's reading list

Spinoza's "Ethics"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Essays"
Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"
Isaiah
Ecclesiastes
Mein Kampf

At Oxford:

Ten years after Oxford:

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