Many countries automate traffic law enforcement with extensive networks of speed cameras. The bipartisan infrastructure bill included $14 billion to build such a system in the United States, which is being planned by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Do you see the problems with this?
Most people agree that hating, mistreating, or discriminating against people because of their race is morally wrong. But some progressives are trying to co-opt the moral consensus against racism to serve their own ideology, and, in doing so, are distorting it beyond recognition.
World Wars often come as a surprise to the people who get dragged into them. Now Russia is set to invade Ukraine, so President Biden is sending 3,000 troops to Eastern Europe. China thinks the U.S. is a "paper tiger" and threatens military conflict over Taiwan. Americans need to pay attention.
In his translation of the "London Writings," John Kleinig includes introductions and annotations that guide us through J. G. Hamann's theology. He traces four key theological themes: God as author (of Scripture and creation); spiritual battle (against Satan, in the cosmos, the earth, and the soul); divine advocacy (the intercession of Christ and the Holy Spirit); and divine condescension (the descent of the Son in incarnation; the Father in creation, and the Holy Spirit in Scripture).
Hamann's critique of Enlightenment rationalism and his "metacritique" of Kant's constructivism--both of which are highly respected by contemporary scholars--show how Christianity offers a way forward from both modernism and postmodernism. Read more
J. G. Hamann's mature style is comical, filled with wordplay and allusions, dense, and sometimes hard to decipher. But the "London Writings" are highly readable, with a style that is passionate, incisive, and electric with discovery. All of this is conveyed in Dr. Kleinig's superb English rendition. Consider, for example, Hamann's confession of faith. Read more
J. G. Hamann's "Thoughts on the Course of My Life," in the "London Writings," translated in its entirely into English for the first time by John Kleinig, tells about his dramatic conversion to Christianity. Read more
The thought of the 18th century German thinker J. G. Hamann has been rediscovered, with some seeing it as showing a way forward from the dead ends of postmodernism. Now his "London Writings," his account of his conversion and Biblical reflections, has been translated into English for the first time. The translator is John Kleinig, and I served as editor. Read more
Now we have churches in the metaverse, in which the avatars of worshippers meet in computer-generated sanctuaries. They are even performing virtual reality baptisms, in which avatars are immersed in an animation of water. See the embedded videos of what these services look like.
An expert on extremist groups says that much of the mainstream progressive writing on right wingers promotes alarmist theories and stereotypes without trying to understand the people they are writing about.
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