Category Archives: Postmodernism/ Relativism

The Truth Holds Us (Short Version)

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Arrogant Christianity?

Are Christians arrogant when we say we know the truth? I’ve finally been able to make a good recording of The Truth Holds Us. I enjoyed some great hospitality at Williamsburg Christian Academy this morning, and shared this message with their high-school group. At 21 minutes and a half minutes, this is about two-thirds to …

November 10, 2010 – 2:29 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Postmodernism/ Relativism, Thinking Christianly | Comments (2)

Set Forth Your Case: EPS Apologetics Conference

Check out this conversation on the upcoming Evangelical Philosophical Society Apologetics Conference, to be held in Atlanta, November 18-20. I’ll be there, and I strongly urge you to come. Registration is very inexpensive, and the speaker lineup is very impressive. Hope to see you there! Hat Tip for the video: Confident Christianity

October 29, 2010 – 12:33 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Postmodernism/ Relativism, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Comments Off

“Does Reason Know What It Is Missing?”

Stanley Fish has published a New York Times opinion piece on recent work by Jürgen Habermas titled Does Reason Know What It Is Missing? Habermas is a German philosopher, an atheist, who in Fish’s words, has long been recognized as the most persistent and influential defender of an Enlightenment rationality that has been attacked both …

April 20, 2010 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Postmodernism/ Relativism | Comments (3)

Politics, Power, and the Abandonment of Truth

Just published at BreakPoint: My article Politics, Power, and the Abandonment of Truth. The central political tragedy of our day is not any of the decisions being made regarding health care, abortion, marriage, or morality. Nor is it special interest group influence, campaign negativity, or even governmental encroachment on our freedoms. It is that we …

April 16, 2010 – 6:40 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Life and Choices, Postmodernism/ Relativism | Comments (13)

Be More Creative: Guess Your Way To Your Answer?

From The Point, on a recent meeting of the 25,000-member American Education Research Association: [Gabriel] Reich was trying to explain … why it was presumptuous for professional mathematicians (and many parents) to be up in arms about the currently fashionable constructivist idea that instead of explaining to youngsters, say, how to do long division, teachers …

May 26, 2009 – 12:26 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Postmodernism/ Relativism | Comments (2)

“Is Religion Adaptive? It’s Complicated” — Scientific American

Here’s an interesting discussion at Scientific American: “Is Religion Adaptive? It’s Complicated.” Schloss’s point is the one that gets most people thinking. “That’s all fine and dandy about the scientific research, but what does it all tell us about the existence of God?” What if, as I suggested in my answer to this year’s “Annual …

January 19, 2009 – 6:13 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Postmodernism/ Relativism | Tagged , | Comments (177)

The Culture Wars

From Richard John Neuhaus: We are two nations: one concentrated on rights and laws, the other on rights and wrongs; one radically individualistic and dedicated to the actualized self, the other communal and invoking the common good; one viewing law as the instrument of the will to power and license, the other affirming an objective …

October 17, 2008 – 11:11 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Postmodernism/ Relativism, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments Off