Sublime

his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.

What was needed, he felt, was not high moral or theological ideals, but a deeply critical form of cultural history or ‘genealogy’ that would uncover the reasons why we humans are as we are, and how we came to be that way. For him, all philosophy could even be redefined as a form of psychology, or history. He believed that every great philosopher ac

You and I both know that you have transgressed over and over and over again. And you’re going to stand before a holy God to be judged by these things, according to a stricter standard than all others because you are a pastor, and he will ask you to give an account. And looking back over the failures of your life and ministry, you will grasp at stra

When you take away a common moral order and tell everybody to find their own definition of the mystery of life, most people will come up empty.

Jean-Paul Sartre said, ‘Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist.’