A human life is incomplete without the arts. If the “unexamined life is not worth living” as the ancient Greeks said, in the same way, a life without the experience and enjoyment of beauty is not a completely realized life. The Christian worldview takes into account the individual as a
How should Christians use the arts to proclaim the gospel? In the past, Europe enthroned reason. Seeing the terrible and devastating consequences, the West decided to adopt the even newer and more devastating attitude of irrationality. Can a Christian living in the midst of this post-Christian situation still proclaim the
The Frankfurt School, and three major events—World War I, Russia’s Communist Revolution, and World War II—all had a powerful influence in creating the new mindset in the West. But not these only. A very influential group of French thinkers belong on the same list. These include J. Paul Sartre; Simone
Western society is in crisis I am neither an historian nor a sociologist. Before becoming a Christian I was a Marxist. I have always had a certain interest and concern about intellectual issues related to the spiritual world and Christianity. For the Christian life to be relevant, it cannot be
How Gerhard Kittel twisted truth to accommodate the spirit of the age We are living at a time of dramatic change for hundreds of millions of people. This change is driven by two forces. One is postmodernism, born in Germany between the two world wars. More recently, a growing nationalism
Earlier in this series on SOGI we wrote about the Fairness for All compromise offered to the LGBT community by two Christian associations in the US. What would be the likely consequences of this proposed compromise? FFA would, for the time being, provide protection from SOGI laws to certain faith-based
By far the most widely read of all our blogs is School vs. Education: The Difference Matters. Now Canadian essayist and poet David Solway has written a disturbing piece of similar tone at PJ Media, The End of Education. Consider this excerpt: It has taken a hundred years to ruin
Before there were postmoderns, there were Nazis. The 21st century phenomenon of postmodernism—in the streets, on university campuses, in legislatures and in the courts of law—has been a long time coming. It was the product of Jewish intellectuals, born as Cultural Marxism in the Frankfurt School between two World Wars.
Today’s postmoderns are the offspring of the pro-slavery crowd of 1860. Postmoderns have rejected the concept of truth and chosen lies. They have rejected reality in favor of delusion. They are not content that we hear their arguments; rather, we must accept their position as our own. There is no
Answer: Western civilization Question: What do postmodern thought leaders identify as the biggest problem in the world? Postmodernists insist that social justice requires the death of Western civilization, as “social justice warrior” Jesse Jackson said in the 1980s. Western civilization is rooted in three streams of thought, three “books,” in a
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