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Among evangelicals, high levels of theological illiteracy mean that many “evangelicals” hold views traditionally defined as heresy, calling into question the centrality of theology to evangelicalism generally.
Kristin Kobes Du Mez • Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:
- We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.
- We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of
Ted Gioia • The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College
Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (American Ideals & Institutions)
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to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
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