Epistemic Peer Disagreement; How to think about Protestant Disagreements
for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. -1 Corinthians 11:19 I wish in this post to sketch the…
Confessing the Sins of the Fathers; The Legacy of Christendom and Islam
Theological progress may be dependent upon the criticism of the Church’s institutional experience, even the rejection of long tracts of that experience as fundamentally invalid. In such criticism may well…
Zombie Movies as Reactionary Films: Humanity and Civilisational Survival
There seems to be an emerging Zombie movie/game sub-genre which attempts to reconcile the existence of zombies with civilisation. Examples of such movies includes “Maggie” (acted by Arnold Schwarzenegger no less)…
Christian Egalitarianism Contra the Homosexuality of Traditional Hypermasculine Culture
Homosexuality is part and parcel of bushidō (武士道, the way of the samurai), and ever since the samurai class established their own bakufu (幕府, shogunate) in 1192, those in authority…
Anti-Humanist Propositions
(1) The human qua human is intrinsically worthless. (2) Whatever worth the human has is wholly derivative of an external end. (3) The value of human acts is purely a…
Shall Romanists Live by Ex Cathedra Alone? Implications of the Synod on the Family
Little Impact on Marital Teachings The Roman Catholic Synod on the Family has recently ended and most people are focused upon the impact which it would have upon the Roman…
The Civic Theology of that Great Protestant Republic; What America can teach Us
These were some personal reflections I wrote on my flight from America back home about four months ago. And what should they know of England, who only England know? –…
Belief in God is Natural; Theistic Beliefs and the Role of Argument
The situation in which I would properly be said to have evidence for the statement that some animal is a pig is that, for example, in which the beast itself is…