I recently read Oliver O’Donovan’s book on political theology, The Desire of the Nations, at the end of which he gives a (pretty fair) critique of modern liberal society. One point that struck me as profound relates to what he calls the ‘totalisation of speech’. For O’Donovan, this has eroded the love of true wisdom [...]
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The Gospel According to Ancient Near Eastern Cosmology
Posted in Theology, tagged ancient, ANE, cosmology, creation, doctrine, earth, east, enlightenment, flammarion, God, gospel, incarnation, inerrancy, infallible, Jesus, Literature, moses, near, old, physics, pillars, plato, quantum, sinai, socrates, testament, universe, woodcut, yahweh on April 11, 2009 | 69 Comments »
Cosmologies This is an illustration called the Flammarion Woodcut, depicting the ancient understanding of the world. A traveler has reached the end of the (flat) earth, and peers through the sky to see the heavenly dimensional plane beyond. Living in our post-Enlightenment age with our 21st-century sensibilities, we cannot truly appreciate these old cosmologies. We [...]
“Dust and Light” is now a Dot-Com!
Posted in Current Affairs, tagged .com, address, blog, url on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hello to all! This is just a very brief announcement to let everyone know that “Dust and Light” now officially has its very own dot-com address! You can find us right here, at http://DustAndLight.com For any RSS feed subscribers, be sure and updated your readers. Most readers should make the change automatically, but not all [...]
The Ammunition of Reduction and the Humility of Christ
Posted in Culture, Current Affairs, Faith, Philosophy, Politics, Theology, tagged christ, Eric Holder, Formation, humility, Reductionism, Sloganeering, Stephen Carter on April 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I recently read an article on nytimes.com by Yale law professor Stephen Carter in which he laments the reductionist way in which recent comments by US attorney general Eric Holder were interpreted by the wider media. Holder, speaking to Justice Department employees for Black History Month, stated that “in things racial we have always been [...]
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