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Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein (Veritas Book 23)
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My dream was very logical. A world not under God’s law is soon a world in which only tyranny prevails. Moral order is replaced by statist order, and man ceases to be a person before the law. We should remember that John Dewey, the father of modern statist education, was skeptical about personal consciousness and conscience. For him the reality was
... See moreR. J. Rushdoony • An Informed Faith
If I am Abraham and maintain my secular faith, I believe that Isaac’s life is priceless—I am devoted to his well-being as an end in itself—but I also believe that his life can be lost. Indeed, it is only by acknowledging and being responsive to Isaac’s finitude that I can care for him.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Common Objects of Love: Moral Reflection and the Shaping of Community; The 2001 Stob Lectures
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The Christian philosopher Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984), in fact, proposed an argument that was intended, in a very complicated and ingenious way, to transform this venerable philosophical intuition into something like a comprehensive philosophical proof, one that moved from the “unrestricted intelligibility” of reality to the reality of God as the
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
When we talk about justice today, we almost always find ourselves talking about rights we believe are entrenched in nature and have been enshrined in our founding documents. This language reflects a liberal conception of human action and interaction, casting us as rational agents who reach agreements with one another through calculation and negotia
... See moreHow might a Christian respond to Wielenberg? We can start by arguing that it is more plausible to think values and duties attach to persons rather than things, and in this, theism is rationally preferable to Platonic atheism. As I type I’m sitting on a chair. I don’t have any obligations to the chair. I don’t owe it to the chair to weigh less than
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