“According to the Gospels, Jesus did not tell his listeners to believe whatever they wished to believe as individuals, or to follow him only in their private thoughts and interior sentiments but not in concrete, public, shared human life.” — 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
