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It’s the Culture
What happens to a culture shaped by the Bible, if the culture ceases to believe that the Bible tells truth?” This was the question asked by my initiation paper...
A Review of Ethics with Barth
Ethics with Barth by Matthew Rose Ashgate, 226 pages, $89.95 This is a necessary book, whether one is concerned to understand Barth or to understand the moral life. Matthew...
How The World Lost Its Story
As our changing culture struggled to define itself, the theologian Robert W. Jenson mourned the missing narrative of a universe gone postmodern and mad. From the October 1993 issue....
Can We Have a Story?
Some time ago I published in this journal an essay on “How the World Lost Its Story” (October 1993). Modernity’s project, I said with great unoriginality, was the attempt...
