“Bioethics as an intellectual institution is, in significant part, an industry for the production of rationalized — sometimes elegantly rationalized — permission slips in the service of the technological imperative joined to the pursuit of fame and wealth. Such permission slips are also issued in the service of what some believe to be the relief… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“Irony is a form of distancing; of protecting oneself from disappointment by not hoping for too much; of worldly-wise defense against being taken in; of skepticism as an armor against naïveté; of debunking truths that threaten to inconveniently oblige; of an amused posture of superiority to a world unworthy of one’s most singular self.” Richard… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“It is not true that all the founders, or even almost all, were devout, Bible-believing Christians along the lines we associate with twenty-first-century evangelical Christians. Evangelical Christians who lack a vibrant ecclesiology and are therefore inclined to turn the nation into their church are sometimes tempted to embrace this counter-distortion. The result is a hyper-patriotism… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“Against our fellow Babylonians who seek no other city and have repudiated the truths upon which this earthly city is founded, we follow the counsel of Jeremiah in attempting to secure and advance the peace and welfare that serve the common good, which is the limited and penultimate good that is possible short of the… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“Some kind of eschatology, a vision of what might be and perhaps will be, a sense of destination in which history culminates in the true community for which we long, is inherent in the thought and action of all serious people.” Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile (New York: Basic, 2009),… [Read more…]
July 8, 2011
“One cannot defend the biblical message of Christianity unless one has that content firmly intact: the what (content) precedes the that (defense). Both hermeneutics and theology as eschatology must serve as the prolegomena to Christian apologetics. In this context, apologetics ‘seeks to defend the eschatological system of biblical truth against false philosophy and false science.’”… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
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