This website offers material on philosophy, religion and ethics, notes for students and examples of my travel photography. Please come and take a look around!
The whispy seeds of summer...
As the hot summer continues, the landscape takes on its own special beauty, with dessicated plant life reflecting the unrelenting sun and seeds blowing about. It has become a land of insects, where even the birds have vanished, awaiting the cool of evening. Nothing to break the silence of the countryside but the buzzing of insects and the gentle rustling of baked grasses shifting in the wind. I walk slowly on, my feet avoiding the newly opened ruts in the long-beaten path. Raising my camera, my shutter sounds like the snapping of a brittle twig.
(But that was last week; now the weather has broken! August 11th)
Through Mud and Barbed Wire
In June 1916, two remarkable religious thinkers found themselves on opposite sides of the battle of Verdun; for both the experience was uniquely formative, but they responded to it very differently. It transformed their ideas of God, their careers and their lives.
A German Lutheran chaplain and a French Jesuit stretcher bearer, although separated by only a few hundred yards of mud and barbed wire, tried to cope with, and make sense of, that horror of death and destruction on an unprecedented scale.
They – Paul Tillich and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – reflect a century of thinking about religion, politics, humanism, existential angst and the global future.
It's the story of those two men and their struggles with religious belief, but also of the whole way in which ideas about God and religion have been shaped and re-shaped during the last hundred years.
Paperback @ £7.99 / $11.50 | Kindle ebook @ £1.99 / $2.99
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Philosophy for Life
From the publisher's publicity...
Philosophy For Life is the essential introduction to the history of Western thought, covering key thinkers, both ancient and modern, and the major branches of philosophy. But more than that, it is a toolkit for developing new insights into the world we live in.
In Philosophy For Life you will develop your own critical and creative thinking by exploring the key ideas in Western Philosophy and the arguments that continue to shape our world.
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Its first review on Amazon (from a 'Top 500 Reviewer', unknown to me) concludes:
'Mel Thompson's clearly written and intellectually stimulating book is a superb introduction which should appeal to the general reader as well as students of philosophy.'
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