In the light of the explorations we have conducted in Vico’s speculation on Man’s humanity, I’d like to offer some personal Vichian reflections on the subject. The ancient Greeks warned us that the unexamined life is not worth living; that man needs to ask the question what does it mean to be human and only…
What’s going on…? In November, Metanexus released the first issue of our interim publication, Where’s My Spiral? It had been a while since you had received a Spiral (newsletter) and, while we were busy overhauling our website and our publications, we thought you would like to know why you hadn’t heard from us about the…
Few would question that we live in tumultuous times. Our contemporary cultural upheaval comes in the wake of discoveries from revolutionary geniuses such as Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein who gave us the theories upon which modern science stands. These theories have shifted the base of morality away from religious truth toward scientific…
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? –T. S. Eliot “The Rock” 1934 Always be ready to give an answer when someone asks you about your hope. –1 Peter 3:151 “Perhaps most importantly, we must recognize that ethics requires us to risk ourselves…
From the Metanexus lecture series “By Nature Creators: Coming to Terms with Human Nature” I. Created to be Creators I introduce my presentation this evening and those that follow in this series by commenting on three facets of this work: what it’s about; the form it takes; its genre or type of literature. What It’s…
As a Christian theologian interested in human origins, the origin of religion, and the controversial issue of human ‘uniqueness’, I have been increasingly drawn to the contributions of paleoanthropologists and archeologists to this challenging problem. In my recent Gifford Lectures I have been deeply involved in trying to construct plausible ways for theology to enter…