Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Orthodox Natural Law Theory
As some have argued here, the Church’s witness requires her to clearly articulate her anthropological vision. The challenges that face both the Church and the larger society flow from competing visions of what it means to be human. The articulation of an Orthodox understanding of the human person is central to our moral witness in…
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Wesley J. Smith: Unless we all matter
The Source “God loves each of us, as if there were only one of us.” – St. Augustine. If you want to accurately predict what could soon go wrong in society, just read the professional journals. Case in point: A bioethicist named Alasdair Cochrane, a deep thinker at the Centre for the Study of Human…
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Fundamentalism: It’s Not Just for Right Wing Christians Anymore
On the Acton Institute’s PowerBlog, John Couretas has a good post (Got a feelin’ of Eco-Justice?) response to “the cascading daily disclosures of Climategate . . . global warming alarmist operating within the progressive/liberal precincts of churches and their activist organizations” have taken to dismissing science and playing ” the theology card!”
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Albert Mohler: Vanishing Christianity — A Lesson from the Presbyterians
AlbertMohler.com “Liberal Protestantism, in its determined policy of accommodation with the secular world, has succeeded in making itself dispensable.” That was the judgment of Thomas C. Reeves in The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Protestantism, published in 1996. Fast-forward another fourteen years and it becomes increasingly clear that liberal Protestantism continues its suicide —…
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Patriarch Kirill & Pope Benedict: A Tale of Two Leaders for a new Missionary Age
I’ve been asked to become an Orthodox columnist on Catholic.org and accepted. Below is my first essay. Regular readers will notice ideas we discussed on the AOI Observer. +++++++++++++++++ Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) NAPLES, FL. (Catholic Online) – Over four decades ago Pope John Paul II said that the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church was…
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