Everywhere in Justice Wolterstorff's interest in theological and philosophical history collides with his desire for syllogism, or for causal necessity,…
First things
philosophy
The paucity of secularism?
It seems to me that what worries Wolterstorff about "right order" theories of justice (i.e., communitarian accounts) is that they…
Not a foundation but a raft
Why should we conclude that God's love for human beings takes the form of attachment love as opposed, for instance,…
Justice and theism
The central claim of Nicholas Wolsterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is that justice is based on natural human rights that inhere…
Akbar Ganji in conversation with Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor: If the human relation to religion and to God is not as shallow as the mainstream theory thinks,…
Heraclitean spirituality: divine conflict
From the vertiginous summit of his virtue, and against all evidence to the contrary, Heraclitus informs us that "it is…
Heraclitean spirituality: ephemeral selves
"That it cannot break time and time's greed---that is the will's loneliest misery." Thus spoke Zarathustra. To try to escape…
Immanent spirituality
A worthy touchstone to arbitrate between worldviews immanent and transcendent is the désir d'éternité, the "desire to gather together the…
Critique and conviction
The heated exchange in this forum between Stathis Gourgouris and Saba Mahmood raises a basic question about conviction through which the relationship between…
The renouncers
What has become clear to me in recent years is that the old dream of progress, which used to be…