Top Ten Conservative Colleges

Young America’s Foundation recently (last fall) compiled their list of the Top Ten Conservative Colleges. Unlike the MSN Encarta lists, this one is serious-for-real. These colleges embody, so thinks YAF, real conservative princples (and not just political ones). A description accmpanies each. From the YAF page: In the market of American colleges and universities, a [...]

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A Project of Faithful Thinking IX

[Note: This entire series of posts can be read in a single html document here.] Conclusion In the present Western sociopolitcal context, and certainly here in the United States where I live, the greatest danger for faithful Christian thinking is that of Gnosticism, the divorcing of mind and thinking from the body and the will. [...]

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A Project of Faithful Thinking VIII

Building on Christian Foundations for Faithful Thinking: Tracing the Implications 2. Christian Thinking is Holy Thinking If it is the case that truly Christian thinking is, at its core, a partaking of the divine nature, and if Christian thinking, to be faithful, must be whole, and can only be whole insofar as it is in [...]

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A Project of Faithful Thinking VII

Building on Christian Foundations for Faithful Thinking: Tracing the Implications 1. Christian Thinking is Whole Thinking On the basis of the foundations for Christian thinking which I have laid out previously, it is clear that Christians cannot be faithful in their thinking and at the same time dichotomize it. That is to say, a Christian [...]

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A Project of Faithful Thinking VI

Building on Christian Foundations for Faithful Thinking: Tracing the Implications I will review briefly the previous points. I noted that all human knowledge ultimately must have to do with the reality that is the Holy Trinity. The Holy Trinity is the source of all reality, all existence, and all our human knowing is true and [...]

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A Project of Faithful Thinking V

Christian Foundations for Faithful Thinking: Knowledge is Love I have argued that all Christian thought is based on and comes from the reality of a Trinitarian God. Because the foundation of all reality is the Trinity, then knowing and truth are hypostatic koinonia. Furthermore, Truth is Personal because it is a Person. And if these [...]

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A Project of Faithful Thinking IV

Christian Foundations for Faithful Thinking: Truth is Personal If knowing is communion, then the other side of that is Truth is Personal. But this is not such a leap, after all, Jesus calls himself the Truth. St. Paul says of Christ, that “in Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Truth is [...]

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A Project of Faithful Thinking III

Christian Foundations for Faithful Thinking: Hypostatic Koinonia If the Trinity is the fundamental reality of all of life, then one particularly significant aspect of that reality is what I am calling hypostatic koinonia. Or, in other words, personal communion. The relationship between the three members of the Godhead is sometimes referred to as perichoresis, or [...]

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A Project of Faithful Thinking II

Christian Foundations for Faithful Thinking: The Trinity It seems to me that the fundamental starting point for all Christian thinking is the Trinity. There can be no compromise here. For if a Christian were ever to fail to affirm (or even deny) the fact of the Trinity, he could not proceed forward in any surety [...]

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A Project of Faithful Thinking I

Introduction This is the first in a series of reflections on what it means to think faithfully. The ancient philosophers looked out on the physical world and noted the regularity and orderedness of it and posited that the basic principle of the universe is Logos, or reason. The intellect was that about mankind that made [...]

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