I begin this post by posing straightaway the questions that will guide my argument. In what way can atheism and…
theology
Au contraire, Mr. Beck
On July 13, 2010, Glenn Beck made liberation theology---and especially Black Theology---the subject of his televised program. The real subject…
Can greed be good?
In the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's new Religion and Ethics section, renowned American theologian Stanley Hauerwas asks, "Can greed be good?"—a…
Making sense of the emerging church movement
Two recent contributions from the United Kingdom shed some light on the elusive phenomenon knows as the "emerging church" or,…
Commentaries on our age
Each contributor [to Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age] delivers a reading of Taylor’s work, helping to evaluate its…
Waiting for Godot, who is either late or not coming at all
I wondered how long it would take DPDF participants to undo what I thought I had carefully assembled in my opening post on…
Secularism by eschatology, deferred
It’s hard to say how Hans Blumenberg would have responded to recent data troubling the secularization thesis other than to…
The “inter-religious” university and the Christian right
In early June, the Claremont School of Theology announced that it would merge with its local Jewish and Muslim counterparts…
God, science and philanthropy
Nathan Schneider profiles John Templeton and the Foundation he built, in The Nation.
Secularism, atheism, antihumanism
In a 1956 text on ethics and literature, Emmanuel Levinas offered the following diagnosis of the philosophical trends of his…