Jan 292008
You tell ‘em, Joe.
An interesting post & discussion:
Alexander Pruss’s Blog: Liberal theology
I think a lot of liberal theologians don’t have a “high view of reason” – many (not all) of them strike me as lazy drifters on miscellaneous intellectual currents. e.g. Has anyone’s reason really revealed to them, so to speak, that miracles don’t happen, or even that it’s irrational to believe they have happened? Smug assuming, faker arguments (“Surely, in the age of the radio and lightbulbs… blah, blah) and hunkering down with one’s intellectual homies is usual the way here, or so it seems to me. Maybe he’s using “reason” more loosely than I am – where reason telling me P just means something like: I thought about it, and it seems to me that P.
In my ample wanderings around the blogosphere it has become completely obvious to me that those on the “right” of the culture wars divide, and who make a big deal about so called “reason” are just as full of double-minded yes/no/maybe hypocracies as any one else.
Even more so in fact, because any usual human being who claims exclusive proprietry ownership of “god” ,as many/most/all of those on the “right” do are full of hubristic self-delusions.
Even more so if you consider the usual Christian presumption that we are inherently “fallen” or sinful, and cant really know anything about god.
How then can a “fallen”/sinful human really claim to speak with any kind of (dogmatic) certainty about God.