Worldview

As in most North American, academic settings, aesthetic theory maintains an uneasy existence somewhere in between epistemology and value theory in a philosophy department.

The study of modern philosophical systems and of the early Church Fathers influenced Roman Catholic thought more profoundly than anyone at first had suspected.

This book calls attention to our culture’s advances in science and technology.

Western culture, characterized by science and by modern technology, is in a crisis.

A prophet is God-possessed, is possessed by the Spirit of prophecy, as John, the author of the last Bible book, was “in the Spirit” (Revelation 1:10) when he received his revelation.

When at the beginning of the summer vacation Prof. Radius called me on the telephone to ask if I would prepare something for this faculty-Board Conference, on the subject of the Christian’s relation to the world.

In our own country, we are hearing a great deal about the tension that is frequently thought to be felt between states’ rights and human rights, and between existing civil rights and human rights. These are polar tensions that arise from the peculiarly humanistic way of thinking.

The discussion of human existence in terms of human rights has been very much in the foreground of our life since the eighteenth century Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, and in the political and socio-economic revolutions that have characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

It is not surprising that Christian young people experience under these conditions of upheaval a heightened awareness of the root question: What is human life and how is it to be lived?