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Moral Awareness: Caught up in the Middle of Things

Moral obligations are discovered in moral experience

"It would be nice to test the ground of morality before we step on it. But to all such proposals there is one inevitable reply: they come too late."

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The Stump Speech Becomes Secularism’s Sermon

Flattery, politics, & the search for power

And yet, there is cause to think that this unbelief has become the very ground of a new positive consensus. It entails the unavoidably moral and religious inclinations that have always belonged to man, but attaches to them the kind of political and sociological expressions that Bottum describes in his book.

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What Text will now Define & Describe Ontology?

Being & Act in a Brief Assessment of Vedantic Philosophy

If Western modern philosophy is to be faulted for its own Enlightenment presuppositions—ironically ill-disposed as it became to the Biblical revelation, also—so must the Indian schools face the nature and source of their own most basic assumptions.

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Religion is Contemplated in God’s Gift of Redemption

A Selection taken from Herman Bavinck’s The Wonderful Works of God

"Without special revelation the religion of men and the philosophy of thinkers do not have a right knowledge of God, and hence no right knowledge of man and the world, and of sin and redemption."

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Defacing the Truth, Destroying the Conscience

Terrence Malick’s film reminds us that the present becomes a horrible future after we join hands to misconsider the past

“What we do is just create sympathy. We create…we create admirers. We don’t create followers."

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