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Christian Humanist Profiles 237: Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography
Every ethics presumes a sociology. That formula has followed me through nearly twenty-five years of study, and its source text, After Virtue by Alasdair...
Christian Humanist Profiles 236: Theology of Consent
When we set several theologies next to each other, naming their core claims helps us to make sense of their relationships, even as we...
Christian Humanist Profiles 235: God after Einstein
As a student in a good Old Testament Introduction class will be able to tell you, Genesis 1 borrows structures and symbols and maybe...
Christian Humanist Profiles 234: The Right
When my students ask me–and soon enough they learn not to ask me–I always tell them I’m an unrepentant left-winger; after all, I’ve never...
Christian Humanist Profiles 233: Reading History with Michael Burger
Some truths seem self-evident once somebody has spoken them, but someone needs to make that move. So here goes: whenever any of us teaches,...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 232: Bart Ehrman
I’ve had a working hypothesis for quite a while now that stories about the devil tell us about as much about an author’s priorities...