The Incoherent Logic behind the American Constitutional Order
A government of laws, and not of men. -John Adams, Novanglus Essays No.7 …whoever hath an absolute Authority to interpret any written, or spoken Laws; it is He, who is…
The Protestant Case for Religious Art; Symbols versus Representations
Images of Christ and of the saints, that is, representations of their story by means of paintings and the like in churches and elsewhere, have, as Gregory says, been the…
Abortion and If-it-Quacks-Like-a-Duck Criteria
Every sperm is sacred every sperm is great if a sperm is wasted God gets quite irate. -Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life: Every Sperm is Sacred Church History and…
Rowan Williams and Hypocrites as Scripted Characters
The following is taken from Archbishop Rowan William’s Interiority and Epiphany: A Reading in New Testament Ethics. Modern ethics and theology alike have been haunted by a presence usually called…
Divine Goodness as Platonic Form or Gifts of Goodies?
I plan to write a future note on this but I broadly conceive of two concepts of divine goodness which are held amongst believers. One I shall call the “platonic…
Empathy as a Habituated Illusion
Feeling Bad for a Robot There was a video which went round Facebook recently showing a rather realistic four-legged robot being able to navigate obstacles and uneven terrain. The video also…