The Revolt Against the Culture of Truth
We have rejected divine revelation as the basis of truths not only about God but about human nature, and in turn ignored it as the source of human understanding and human flourishing.
We have rejected divine revelation as the basis of truths not only about God but about human nature, and in turn ignored it as the source of human understanding and human flourishing.
The responsibility of the Christian intellectual is to integrate faith and knowledge. The data, insights, facts and discoveries must not be dealt with as though they belonged to a world other than that in which faith exists.
It has been three years since we started the Cántaro Institute, and four years since Daniel Lobo and Julian Castaño sat with me overlooking the Costa Rican tropics and discussed the need for a reformation and renewal of the Western church and culture.
In “The Abolition of Man”, C.S. Lewis demonstrated how the public education of his day fundamentally contradicted the common aims and pedagogy and moral framework of education hitherto maintained throughout human history.
The Bible is more than a book of antiquity, it transforms hearts and nations.
We cannot make sense of suffering, or know how to resolve suffering, outside of the Judeao-Christian worldview.
The fractured individualism evident in our culture has made people seek forms of identity in pursuit of freedom, but it is a freedom never attained and at cost of the family.
Nowadays we are confronted, anew and in an insistent way, with demands for justice, by all kinds of political and social organizations, by ecclesiastical institutions and action groups. Where is justice? What is justice? Questions we must answer.
The inspired Word is the divine THESIS, the lens by which we can see the world for what it truly is, and the guiding principle by which we ought to order our lives.
Too many Christians were satisfied with the form of faith without its substance. The situation has not changed over the centuries.