Darren Sarisky on Webster-style theological theology …operating theologically entails that the discipline cannot frame an account of its own procedures without direct recourse to theological categories… This requires, first, that theologians grant God priority in their study, rather than allowing a philosophical account of the subjective conditions of the enquirer to determine their method. The […]
Robert Joustra on the false ultimacy of politics [Reviewing Nick Spencer’s The Political Samaritan: How Power Hijacked a Parable] Maybe our politics has become so ultimate because it’s one of the last things we have in common. Public narrows to mean political. The state, the last public project, exhausts our collective imagination, when it’s really only one institution, a specifically political one […]
Gilbert Meilaender on when curiosity can be vicious Many possibilities may pique my curiosity — I may wonder how … human beings respond to experiments harmful to their bodies, or even to suffering; how the development of a fertilized egg could be stimulated to produce a monster rather than a normal human being; how to […]
Lawrence Principe on a species of scientific fundamentalism The point is that [John W.] Draper [d. 1882] and [Andrew D.] White [d. 1918] were illegitimately transporting the emerging social stratification of their own era backward into earlier times. By constructing the notion that two rival camps – scientists and religionists – had existed throughout history, […]
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