I just started reading Jack Caputo’s little book On Religion. It has what must be the best opening section of any book I’ve read for quite some time! After saying that “religion” in the singular means nothing, he lets loose:
By religion, therefore, let me stipulate, I mean something simple, open-ended, and old-fashioned, namely, the love of […]
Archive for October, 2007
Modern political theory (and this is an exaggeration!) tends to be mostly about how to do the least possible harm to the fewest number of people. It assumes that, without some type of political order, chaos will reign and we’ll be at each other’s throats. The Christian doctrine of the Fall has no doubt contributed […]
I’m speaking in chapel at our school tomorrow. I have no idea what to say. The problem is not that I don’t have anything to say, just the opposite. I have far too much too say on far too many things to cram into a twenty minute chapel talk.
It will, I’m sure, turn out just fine. […]
Merold Westphal is a Christian in the Reformed tradition who likes to make use of atheist philosophers to help develop what he dubs the hermeneutics of suspicion (the suspicion that we have darker motives for our truth claims) and the hermeneutics of finitude (our humanness always prevents us from seeing everything). As much as I […]
In my current philosophical wanderings through the thicket of faith and reason, I’m starting to see some themes emerge. The following is a gross over-simplification, but it may serve as a helpful theological lens through which to view the postmodern turn in philosophy.
The modern (Enlightenment) view of reason ignored the category of sin. The belief was […]
It seems to me that we have a crisis of authority in our world today. Speaking from my own experience, I grew up in a church in a very religious town. The authorities of church, teacher and home all taught me a certain set of truths and values. Everything was fine and dandy until I […]
