The Crucifix and the Stone — The Cicatrix and the Stone — Part Two
I ended last week’s blog with the self-coined term “religious neoteny”. Neoteny is the retention of juvenile characteristics in an adult animal. Strictly speaking this only refers to physiological development, but I find the imaginative combination of neoteny with “religion” or “culture” informative. It implies that, as adults, our religious or cultural views are adolescent […]
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