24 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
Having now completed our survey of the Old Testament, extracanonical Jewish Literature, and New Testament texts, we have demonstrated that natural law is woven deeply into the fabric of biblical teaching, especially the notion of an objective order for the universe, including a moral order, framed by God and discernible by...
Read more → 20 May 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
There's been an interesting ongoing conversation at Mere Orthodoxy about the theological fascination with cities and corresponding antipathy towards the suburbs. You can see Keith Miller's initial post here and a response by Matthew Lee Anderson here. While there is a lot of good socio-philosophical-theology...
Read more → 15 May 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Writing about the role of hope in utopian movements, Eric Hoffer says: Discontent by itself does not invariably create a desire for change. Other factors have to be present before discontent turns into disaffection. One of these is a sense of power... For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking...
Read more → 15 May 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
While we don't typically like to weigh in with explicitly partisan commentary, since doing so too often distracts from the more important issue of philosophical and theological principles, this description of the Obama administration from Ross Douthat seemed fairly accurate and helpful for future dialog: Obama...
Read more → 12 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
Jewish extracanonical literature, including but not limited to the Apocrypha, provides the context and background which formed the mental furniture of the first hearers of the NT. It also provides the earliest example of how the OT (discussed in my previous post) was interpreted with regards to our subject...
Read more → 10 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
Dr. Leithart has a piece up at First Things echoing thoughts TCI has been expressing frequently as of late: Raising such questions, and invoking Berry, presents a spectrum of issues that many cultural conservatives prefer to dodge. The most penetrating conservative analysts of family life, such as Allan...
Read more → 08 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
In my introductory post, I attempted to define the concepts I will seek to exegetically support. The three hypotheses I have set out to prove are: (N1) there is an objective order to the universe of the kind described above (N2) this order is objectively visible; it is there to be seen, whether...
Read more → 08 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
The Center for a Stateless Society, a self-proclaimed “Left Wing Anarchist Think Tank & Media Center,” quotes writer Kevin Carson on what is dubbed “conflationism” or “vulgar libertarianism”: Vulgar libertarian apologists for capitalism use the term “free market” in an equivocal...
Read more → 06 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
Though probably more associated with stuffy monks and ivory tower philosophers, natural law, it’s hard to deny, has recently become sexy. Well, the topic of discussion has, anyway. Writers have debated the metaphysical, epistemological, scientific, theological, ethical, apologetic, political, and even...
Read more → 01 May 2013
Posted by Andrew Fulford 
As a counterpoint to yesterday's quip from John Médaille, R.R. Reno wrote recently: I don’t see much future for American conservatism until we wake up from our dreams of oppression. Conservative worries about “socialism” are patently absurd. At its worst it reflects a strange mental derangement...
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