Archive for the 'Philosophy' Category

Constantly Directing?

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Our congregation recently conducted a lengthy survey prepared by some consultants from Harding University. It had tons of questions, but the very first substantive question under the heading “personal beliefs” asked to what extent you agree or disagree with the statement: “God is constantly at work in the world directing people, nations and events.”Turns […]

Wilson Handles Hitchens

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Great stuff. Tall order to handle Christopher Hitchens, but Douglas Wilson does it: You write like a witty but acerbic tenth-century archbishop with a bad case of the gout. But this is truly an odd thing to do if "morality" is a simple derivative of evolution. Are you filled with fierce indignation that the […]

The Clash of Civilizations

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

From The Guardian: Relativism has made liberal openness appear weak, empty and repugnant compared with the clarity of dogma[.] …The clash of civilisations is happening not between Islam and the west, as we are often led to believe, but between pragmatic relativism and dogmatic certainty. * * * What was shocking when Nietzsche […]