Is it better to shut down big government operations or try to use big government operations to impose the conservative cause?
Is it better to shut down big government operations or try to use big government operations to impose the conservative cause?
Yesterday we discussed a theological and ethical concept called the "ordo amoris," the order of love. I would like to offer a Lutheran take on the concept by bringing in what the Catholic version lacks: the doctrine of vocation.
Scripture tells us to love our neighbors. But how do we prioritize all of the neighbors that we have? Vice President J. D. Vance answered the question in a distinctly Catholic way by drawing on the "ordo amoris" of St. Thomas Aquinas. But the Bible and St. Augustine go much further.
Sometimes we Christians approach the Bible like any other book, reading it as we would a novel or a blog post. But, as Alastair Roberts points out, is not like any other book, and we must read it in a different way for a different purpose.
Do we really want Gaza? How can tariffs help our economy? Slashing the government.
The different varieties of virtue signaling at least acknowledge the reality of virtue and our inner need to be virtuous. These, however, are attempts to justify ourselves. Far better is the way God justifies us.
Do we need to be concerned about the tech billionaires prominently displayed with the best seats at President Trump's inauguration? How does this fit with Trump's working class base?
As we've been blogging about, the New Atheists have given way to the New Theists, as prominent thinkers are showing a new openness to religion. Some of them are not quite there yet, stopping short of Christian faith, but possibly struggling towards it.
Philosopher Edward Feser explores woke language, particularly the "rhetorical tactic of subverting elements of normal human life precisely by labeling them in ways that make them seem open to challenge." Meanwhile, the woke reject labels for themselves.
Catholic philosopher Edward Feser argues that "Wokism is the New Face of An Old Heresy," namely, Cartharism, named after its adherents who called themselves Cathars, which is Greek for "the pure ones." A toxic form of gnosticism, the Cathars rejected objective reality as intrinsically evil, which led to ideas and practices that we are seeing again today.
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