Trinity House Institute is delighted to announce our first annual series of Nevin Lectures. Timothy George, Dean and Professor of Church History at Beeson Divinity School, will deliver four lectures on Sacramental Theology from a Baptist Perspective on February 7-8, 2014 at Trinity Presbyterian . . . . Continue Reading »
Turkle (Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other) was shocked when a Scientific American reporter accused her of standing in the way of same-sex marriage. She doesn’t oppose gay marriage, but the reporter was unhappy that Turkle objected to “mating and . . . . Continue Reading »
Turkle (Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other) recounts a visit to a museum where she and her daughter Rebecca viewed some Galapagos tortoises. Some of the kids would have preferred a robot: “A ten-year-old girl told me that she would prefer a robot . . . . Continue Reading »
Two high tech developments symbolize the disquieting trends that Sherry Turkle identifies in Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other(xiv): “These days, parents wait in line to buy their childreninteractive Zhu Zhu robotic pet hamsters, advertised as . . . . Continue Reading »
Beginning next year, “Israel will pay for abortions for women aged 20 to 33 regardless of circumstance . . . health officials said Monday, adding that they hope to make eligibility for state funding universal in the future.“The new rule opens it up for 6,300 more women to have a . . . . Continue Reading »
For Jia Tolentino, marriages “holds about as much interest for me as a bag of playground rocks (some! Not much, though).”So she can’t understand why “18 women, 18 brides. 18 capable, wonderful, educated, privileged, professional, socially aware female humans” would go . . . . Continue Reading »
Christian thinkers have defined tyranny as the use of power to advance one’s own interests rather than the common good.A tyrant doesn’t have to be particularly powerful. A small-town mayor who manipulates the town council to help herself and her friends is a tyrant, albeit a petty one.A . . . . Continue Reading »
Like Thomas, Erasmus (The Education of a Christian Prince, 27-8) focuses attention on the differences between tyranny and good rule, and like Thomas he follows Aristotles claim that the foundational difference is between devotion to private interests versus devotion to the public good. Like Thomas, . . . . Continue Reading »
In one of the earliest of the Carolingian specula regiae, Jonas of Orleans (780-842) begins with a Gelasian summary of the relation between king and priest. Bishops are responsible for the spiritual health and salvation of all, including the king, and thus the bishop is higher than the king. Quoting . . . . Continue Reading »
In his contribution to From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective, Henri Blocher suggests that emphasizing Christ’s role as the Head of a new humanity helps to meet the “truly biblical concerns” of different . . . . Continue Reading »
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