When I’m frustrated or at an impasse with a fellow Christian, I find it’s not necessarily differences in the doctrinal details of our faith in Christ that divide us. Often, profoundly different beliefs about the world we all occupy are at the root of our conflict. The thing is, if we misjudge the basic features…
A few weeks ago I proposed to guide our readers, Virgil like, through an examination of several “secular stories,” with the hope that we might arrive at a new perspective from which to assess our rather confusing social/political moment as faithful Christians. I ended my introduction to this series with an outline of the major…
We started this series with a discussion and acknowledgment of the problem of increasing “secularity” for Christians living in the modern West. The society and culture that the church occupies seem to keep drifting further from the Christian commitments that built Christendom. The same secular ideas and attitudes are appearing ever frequently within our churches…
At the beginning of this series, I proposed that the first step toward understanding this “secular” age would be exploring just how we got here. The first major resource I’ve recommended for that task is the book After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. In After Virtue we’ve uncovered what MacIntyre calls “emotivism,” or the implicit ethics…
At the beginning of this series, I proposed that the first step toward understanding this “secular” age would be exploring just how we got here. The first major resource I’ve recommended for that task is the book After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. Which Way: ARISTOTLE OR NIETZSCHE? Alasdair MacIntyre wrote After Virtue to convince his…