Sublime

Each of these theologians and philosophers believed that because humans are fallen and sinful creatures, they are not able to understand spiritual truth about God. Consequently, presuppositionalists do not believe that there is any common ground between the regenerated and the unregenerated, so that logic and rational arguments are ineffective.

Universalism is the opiate of the theologians. It’s the way we would want the world to be.

God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

Don’t worry, be happy. As modern people we have chosen Montaigne over Augustine. We traded pious self-cultivation for undemanding self-esteem. But is love of self really enough to be happy? You know the answer to that, dear reader. And so did Augustine.

By constantly emphasizing, “I believe in order to understand,” Augustine’s more subterranean point was, “I love in order to know.”

While I will argue that Kierkegaard and Pascal share much of Unamuno’s view, it is ultimately Unamuno’s view of reason that is the source of his inability to make the leap of faith that Kierkegaard and Pascal make. Kierkegaard and Pascal see that there are limits to human reason and this makes them approach the problem of the “hiddenness of God”

THE moral theology of the devil starts out with the principle: “Pleasure is sin.” Then he goes on to work it the other way: “All sin is pleasure.”

After that he points out that pleasure is practically unavoidable and that we have a natural tendency to do things that please us, from which he reasons that all our natural tendencies are evil and that

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.