Comments on: More on “The Last Word” http://mattwiebe.com/2007/02/more-on-the-last-word/ Matt Wiebe's blog about faith and life. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:25:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: N.T. Wright’s “The Last Word” » mattwiebe.com http://mattwiebe.com/2007/02/more-on-the-last-word/#comment-608 N.T. Wright’s “The Last Word” » mattwiebe.com Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:53:31 +0000 http://mattwiebe.com/2007/02/more-on-the-last-word/#comment-608 [...] More on “The Last Word” [...] […] More on “The Last Word” […]

]]> By: Matt http://mattwiebe.com/2007/02/more-on-the-last-word/#comment-567 Matt Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:10:51 +0000 http://mattwiebe.com/2007/02/more-on-the-last-word/#comment-567 I dunno, I would say that it is commendable to be honest about our <em>a priori</em> commitments in doing philosophy. I believe that it's impossible not to have them, so actually being honest about them is something we should definitely be doing. I agree that God must be at the heart of all that we do, including our philosophical inquiry. Any metaphysical or ethical system lacking Him as the primary reference point will be foreign to a Christian, even if there are still things to be gleaned from them. I dunno, I would say that it is commendable to be honest about our a priori commitments in doing philosophy. I believe that it’s impossible not to have them, so actually being honest about them is something we should definitely be doing.

I agree that God must be at the heart of all that we do, including our philosophical inquiry. Any metaphysical or ethical system lacking Him as the primary reference point will be foreign to a Christian, even if there are still things to be gleaned from them.

]]> By: Anthony Wiebe http://mattwiebe.com/2007/02/more-on-the-last-word/#comment-566 Anthony Wiebe Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:00:13 +0000 http://mattwiebe.com/2007/02/more-on-the-last-word/#comment-566 Wow. That man's got some intellectual muscle. It's tough to disagree with the analysis of the Enlightenment as an alternative eschatology, even, as you said, a metanarrative. I make no apologies for this statement: Aren't metaphysical claims that exclude the fear of the Lord, the acknowledgment of Him as ultimate reality, the Creator, etc., doomed at the outset? I know I've just given away my a priori commitments, and am therefore not embarking in true philosophy, but seriously, I just think that notions of metaphysics and eschatology are simply rubbish if God's not the linchpin of the equation. Wow. That man’s got some intellectual muscle.

It’s tough to disagree with the analysis of the Enlightenment as an alternative eschatology, even, as you said, a metanarrative.

I make no apologies for this statement: Aren’t metaphysical claims that exclude the fear of the Lord, the acknowledgment of Him as ultimate reality, the Creator, etc., doomed at the outset? I know I’ve just given away my a priori commitments, and am therefore not embarking in true philosophy, but seriously, I just think that notions of metaphysics and eschatology are simply rubbish if God’s not the linchpin of the equation.

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