Objects are not just tools or things of beauty, writes Sherry Turkle in her introduction toEvocative Objects: Things We Think With. In addition, they are “companionsto our emotional lives or as provocations to thought. Thenotion of evocative objects brings together these two lessfamiliar . . . . Continue Reading »
According to Nicholas of Cusa, doxology is the highest form of science. This is so because a response of praise is a response to the inherent goodness of a thing. As Johannes Hoff explains (The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa, 19), “if our praise is genuine, and not . . . . Continue Reading »
Sherry Turkle’s Falling for Science: Objects in Mindis a fascinating collection of testimonials from engineers and scientists about the childhood experiences and objects that inspired their love for science. Turkle concludes (273-4) acknowledging that we cannot predict or measure what will . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Orr ponders the strange failures of adapting the stories of Elmore Leonard to the screen. The problem is tonal: Early film adaptations didn’t capture the wry humor of the books and short stories; later film adaptations turned up the comedy and lost the wryness.Orr suggests that . . . . Continue Reading »
Megan Garber interviews Sherry Turkle, author ofAlone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Otherand of the forthcoming Reclaiming Conversation.In both books, Turkle argues that despite our constant connectedness we are more and more deprived of real conversation. She tells . . . . Continue Reading »
Brian Marr continues his examination of how the Trinity is revealed in the history of Israel at the Trinity House . . . . Continue Reading »
William Temple emphasizes in Christianity and Social Orderthat we are constituted in relationship:“this social nature of man is fundamentalto his being. I am not first some one on my own account who happensto be the child of my parents, a citizen oi Great Britain, and so forth. Ifyou take all . . . . Continue Reading »
In a 1987 essay in The Review of Politics, Glenn Tinder draws on Pascal, and Tocqueville, to describe what he calls the “diversional welfare state.” By that he means that the welfare state distracts us from what is truly important - God: “the welfare state of today may be . . . . Continue Reading »
Many of the disciples of Menno Simons are pacifists, and many are chary of any use of political power. Menno’s own politics were far more in the mainstream of Christian political thought. Heexhorted magistrates to listen to the demands of God laid out in Scripture. Oppress not the stranger, . . . . Continue Reading »
Good kings should imitate Constantine by preserving true religion and suppressing heresy and schism, argues Jacques Bossuet in his 1679 treatise on Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture(206).Heresy and schism are easy to identify, he thinks. Antiquity is the mark of true religion, . . . . Continue Reading »
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