Articles by Anthony Oughton

Anthony lives in Gateshead in the North East of England with his wife Carla and three children. He teaches Religious Education at Emmanuel College Gateshead, is a Church Warden at Holy Trinity Gateshead, and enjoys writing songs and reading the writings of Wendell Berry and John Berger.

The Abolition of Man and the Need for Christian Humanism

“It would be no exaggeration to say that the more progress ‘humanity’ as an abstraction makes towards the mastery of nature, the more actual individual men tend to become slaves of this very conquest.” (Gabriel Marcel, Man Against Mass Society) Just before the first English lockdown began last year, I read Alan Jacobs’ book The…