“It is frequently alleged that all human meaning, morality, and values can be nothing more than whatever human beings of different times and cultures subjectively and contingently construct for themselves, or at least that we cannot know whether any among… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
