Sublime

If in practice we make truth narrative-driven and relative rather than theistic and absolute, we lose truth.

For a number of philosophers-Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and others-there is a dangerous tendency in modernity toward closure and tautological reductionism: "totalization, normalization and domination."" Levin has noted that behind our Western visionary tradition lies the shadow of phallocentrism, logocentrism, and a "helio-po

The first is the never-ending defense of capitalism and its empty “freedoms,” undermined as they are by the sterile neutrality of market determination alone.

He feared that the higher ideals of the Enlightenment were “irretrievably lost” and that only the imperative of “economic compulsion” would prevail.

The church doesn’t have access to formal (markets, venture capital) or imagined (the good life as bound in sacred time and ritual) engines of acceleration.

Even inside our modern secular age there are ways to have a scope that reaches for transcendence.

Constantine Campbell says, While the father of the Reformation held a view of imputation that depended on union with Christ, the trajectory of later Protestantism followed Melanchthon rather than Luther. Melanchthon thought primarily of the cross as a transaction and, according to [Mark] Seifrid, “the later Protestant formulaic description of justi

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Dominant cultural forms and religious dogma were seen as scrims that hid and diverted the authentic passions and desires of humanity.