Introducing William Desmond
Steven Knepper offers a brief introduction to an important contemporary philosopher
Once there was no “secular”
Carlos Eire on the metaphysical assumptions championed in the sixteenth century
Our suffering, and Christ’s
Joel James Shuman and Keith Meador: “The absence of deliverance from sickness or suffering is neither a sign that God has withdrawn favor nor an occasion to abandon hope.”
Promethean medicine?
Stanley Hauerwas on medicine and limits
Suffering and the vocation of medicine
Stanley Hauerwas on why the elimination of suffering is an inadequate (and unrealistic) goal for medicine
Science, the only reliable leader (but to where?)
Stephen Gaukroger on the replacement of political, social, and cultural goals with scientific, technological, and economic ones
Human dignity, cosmic hierarchies
Political scientist Robert Kraynak on how Christianity opposes worldly hierarchies with hierarchies of its own
What makes our desires and action intelligible
David Bentley Hart on why we must believe that human beings are by nature inclined to the super-natural
Properly this-worldly by being fundamentally other-worldly
Hans Boersma on the necessity of affirming the links between Heaven and Earth
Recognizing a frayed tapestry
Hans Boersma summarizes the theological concerns shared by the members of the nouvelle théologie movement