Brad S. Gregory

“Not only have past processes made us what we are-"modern" or "postmodern" selves, rather than "medieval" or "early modern" selves-but by explaining…

— Brad S. Gregory

“According to the Gospels, Jesus did not tell his listeners to believe whatever they wished to believe as individuals, or to follow…

— Brad S. Gregory

“modern era of multivalent "secularity" and "exclusive humanism" in which we live, a shift from the premodern, socially embedded "porous self" to…

— Brad S. Gregory

“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

“It is frequently alleged that all human meaning, morality, and values can be nothing more than whatever human beings of different times…

— Brad S. Gregory

“difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on…

— Brad S. Gregory

“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on…

— Brad S. Gregory

“general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right,”

— Brad S. Gregory

“The key point is not, as is commonly but wrongly believed, that the empirical investigation of the natural world made or makes…

— Brad S. Gregory

“Regardless of their leaders' decisions, nation-states-their bureaucratic reach augmented by the increasingly centralized orchestration of tax revenues, industrial and communications technologies, military…

— Brad S. Gregory

“human rights" cannot serve as a stable, shared basis for morality in a society riven by fundamental disagreement about what "human" means,…

— Brad S. Gregory

“Some scholars in recent years have expressed a certain wonderment that "religion is back"; the wonder is rather that it was thought…

— Brad S. Gregory