Stephen Mulhall introduces Wittgenstein (Part I) If you’ve got twenty minutes, you can catch the first half of a presentation Stephen Mulhall has given introducing the philosophy of Wittgenstein. It’s a contribution to St John’s Video Timeline Project. Mulhall’s a leading interpreter. (He’ll also be giving Cambridge’s Stanton lectures next year, which will commence on 20 Jan […]
Robert Jenson on metanarratives A. from Canon and Creed, (Westminster John Knox, 2010), 120. We must summon the audacity to say that modernity’s scientific/metaphysical metanarrative — at the moment told by astrophysicists and neo-Darwinians — is not the encompassing story within which all other accounts of reality must establish their places, or be discredited by failing to […]
Bruce Marshall on the role of theologians in a divided church Even in its self-inflicted suffering and want, the divided church remains Jesus Christ’s own body. He can and will give it new life from the dead, in his own good time. As we await this mysterious outworking of the Triune God’s judgment and grace, […]
Stephen Mulhall on Wittgenstein’s Method “What does Wittgenstein take to be distinctive of a philosophical interest in things? What is the typical character of a philosophical question or problem? According to the discussion of philosophical method in sections 89–133 of the Investigations, a philosopher is interested in the essence of things; she is driven by […]
Nicholas Lash on modesty In the gigantic task of discovering how to live Christ and how to talk Christ in the world of today, the contribution of the theologian is necessarily a modest one. from … until He comes: A Study in the Progress toward Christian Unity, Ed. Nicholas Lash, (Pflaum Press, 1968), ix. The […]
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