“Regardless of their leaders' decisions, nation-states-their bureaucratic reach augmented by the increasingly centralized orchestration of tax revenues, industrial and communications technologies, military power, and police forces-controlled the churches and all expressions of religion with greater effectiveness than had ever been… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“Not only have past processes made us what we are-"modern" or "postmodern" selves, rather than "medieval" or "early modern" selves-but by explaining them we… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“According to the Gospels, Jesus did not tell his listeners to believe whatever they wished to believe as individuals, or to follow him only… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“modern era of multivalent "secularity" and "exclusive humanism" in which we live, a shift from the premodern, socially embedded "porous self" to the meaning-constructing… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“It was not something called "religion" distinguished from the rest of life, but rather all of life lived in a certain way.” — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“It is frequently alleged that all human meaning, morality, and values can be nothing more than whatever human beings of different times and cultures… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on those who… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on what they… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“The key point is not, as is commonly but wrongly believed, that the empirical investigation of the natural world made or makes a transcendent… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“Regardless of their leaders' decisions, nation-states-their bureaucratic reach augmented by the increasingly centralized orchestration of tax revenues, industrial and communications technologies, military power, and… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“human rights" cannot serve as a stable, shared basis for morality in a society riven by fundamental disagreement about what "human" means, as is… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“Some scholars in recent years have expressed a certain wonderment that "religion is back"; the wonder is rather that it was thought ever to… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
