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See Tim Keller’s accessible and incredibly helpful overview of Alasdair MacIntyre’s book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? in the article “A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory,” Life in the Gospel. Dr. Keller, you are deeply missed.
John Mark Comer • Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.
Schaeffer’s own Reformed theology undercuts classical apologetics insofar as it is committed to the “noetic effects of sin”—that is, the effects of sin on the mind, distorting both what counts as true and what can be recognized as true for the unbeliever (Rom. 1:18–22; 1 Cor. 2).
James K. A. Smith • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
The intellectual underpinnings of Bonhoeffer’s convictions on life in a Christian faith community can be traced to his early works Sanctorum Communio and Act and Being, which undergirded his interpretation of the church as a primary form of God’s self-revelation.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Daniel W. Bloesch (Translator) • Life Together
Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl