The following is a work in progress. This forms the first two pages of my 30-page semester project. It will be added to and expanded as time goes.
INTRODUCTION
As a political movement, libertarianism is of recent origin. It is rooted in the American alternative tradition, and its pioneers were united by their common realization that all [...]
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I. Introduction
How can the human desire for happiness be reconciled to the reality of suffering in the world? Our best efforts to live a good and pleasant life often seem to be frustrated by fate and hindered by our friends. This is a world of trouble, tragedy, and confusion.
The classical philosophers wanted to construct a [...]
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THOMAS AQUINAS. SUMMA THEOLOGICA, FIRST PART, QUESTION 105, ARTICLE 4. “WHETHER GOD CAN MOVE THE CREATED WILL?”
Objection 1. It would seem that God cannot move the created will. For whatever is moved from without, is forced. But the will cannot be forced. Therefore it is not moved from without; and therefore cannot be moved [...]
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Well, lately I’ve been attempting to discern the will of God for my life. In other words, I’ve been attempting to understand the future in order to control it myself. In other words, I don’t think God’s been doing a real good job as God, and I’d like to take over for him. At the [...]
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110009472
What are libraries for? Are they cultural storehouses that contain the best that has been thought and said? Or are they more like actual stores, responding to whatever fickle taste or Mitch Albom tearjerker is all the rage at this very moment?
If the answer is the latter, then why must we have government-run libraries at [...]
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Tito Mercado preached this morning.
God’s adoptive love was the topic of his sermon, and the Scripture passage was Ephesians 1.
[3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, [4] even as he chose us in him before the [...]
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When sex is “free,” it is valued less; the sense of wonder that it ought to create is diminished; it does not provoke the kind of soul-searching and development that ought to accompany a young person’s rise to adulthood. A young person ought to struggle until love, reason, sex, faith, and virtue are brought together in an understanding of what it truly means to be human. Humanity means not only being the greatest of the animals, but being as far superior to them as they are to the inanimate things.
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Driving back to school I was listening to this opening paragraph from Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, and it stuck in my mind, as it seemed to show, not only an insight for paradox, but a keen and perceptive understanding of the nature of the French Revolution and its adversaries.
IT WAS the best [...]
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Political philosopher Eric Voegelin wrote in his book The New Science of Politics: “From the Gnostic mysticism of the two worlds emerges the pattern of the universal wars that has come to dominate the twentieth century” (151). Central to the immanentist vision which Voegelin criticises is a strong faith in and regard for the basic [...]
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From Abraham Kuyper: A Christian Worldview.
1. The idea that people decide what is normative in life (called popular sovereignty) is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver.
2. Christians confess the relevance of God’s Word even for politics, rejecting a vague concept of natural law or human [...]
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