Sublime

What commenced in Locke gained momentum throughout the modern period. One thinks of the move in the nineteenth century, so abhorred by John Henry Newman, to exclude religion from the circle of academic disciplines on the presumption that religion had to do with private and subjective matters.

At the very least, prophecy is truth telling.

This is the case for at least two reasons: First, we have forgotten the language of the Catholic moral life. Second, we have reduced moral commitments to political identity, and political identity to party loyalty. Thus our moral and political lives are more likely formed by partisan identification than Catholic discipleship. We have reduced our

When priests were married, they naturally tried to pass on Church property to their sons. They could do this legally if their sons became priests; therefore one of the first steps of the reform party, when it acquired power, was to forbid the ordination of priests’ sons.IV But in the confusion of the times there was still danger that, if priests

As preachers, theologians are proclaimers of the Word, the truth of Jesus Christ as the Liberator of the poor and the wretched

This is when the measure itself becomes the end.

And don’t think for a moment that these failings are isolated to Zacharias alone or to people like Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell Jr. or Hillsong’s Carl Lentz. These powerful men were coddled and enabled by other powerful men and then automatically and reflexively defended by thousands upon thousands of angry and loyal Christian followers until