Instead of giving him an honorary doctorate from Notre Dame, this is what the Roman Catholic Church should have said to Obama:
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He summed up the thought of the Church Fathers and is revered by Catholics and Protestants alike.
"Even the cross . . . was a judgment seat. For the Judge was set up in the middle with the thief who believed and was pardoned on the one side and the thief who mocked and was damned on the other. Already then he signified what he would do with the living and the dead: some he will place on his right hand, others on his left." - St. Augustine (Tractates on the Gospel of John 31:11) "For as the Son was judged as a man, he shall also judge in human form." - St. Augustine (City of God, 20.30)
St. Augustine
He summed up the thought of the Church Fathers and is revered by Catholics and Protestants alike.
The Goal of This Blog
Having been influenced over the past two decades primarily by Karl Barth and John Howard Yoder, I have recently been reading St. Augustine, Dostoevesky, Solzhenitsyn, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. I am trying to be a catholic Evangelical and am finding myself becoming more conservative in both politics and theology in the process.
As I re-launch this blog, the goal is to "think out loud" about what it means to be faithful to Jesus Christ in the midst of the culture of death that is so prevalent in the modern West.
In particular, I want to think about the relationship of the thought of St. Augustine and that of John Howard Yoder. Yoder has been influential on my thinking for over 15 years, but I have become convinced that in order to critique modernity effectively we must go back to the pre-modern giants of the Faith and recover Augustinian - Thomistic classical orthodoxy. If we do that, do we have to abandon Yoder's theology? Is Yoder determined by modernity, despite his best intentions? Or do St. Augustine and Yoder have much more in common than one might think?
As I re-launch this blog, the goal is to "think out loud" about what it means to be faithful to Jesus Christ in the midst of the culture of death that is so prevalent in the modern West.
In particular, I want to think about the relationship of the thought of St. Augustine and that of John Howard Yoder. Yoder has been influential on my thinking for over 15 years, but I have become convinced that in order to critique modernity effectively we must go back to the pre-modern giants of the Faith and recover Augustinian - Thomistic classical orthodoxy. If we do that, do we have to abandon Yoder's theology? Is Yoder determined by modernity, despite his best intentions? Or do St. Augustine and Yoder have much more in common than one might think?
About Me
- Craig Carter
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- I teach theology and ethics at Tyndale University College in Toronto and I serve part-time as "Theologian in Residence" at Westney Heights Baptist Church. I firmly believe that theology is done from and for the Church and is for the people of God, not for an academic elite alone. In 2001 I published "The Politics of the Cross: The Theology and Social Ethics of John Howard Yoder" and in 2005 I published: "Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective." I am currently at work on a book on the doctrine of God with a (new) working title: "The Triune God and the Acids of Modernity."
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Best Books Read in 2010
- Nouvelle Theologie and Sacramental Ontology: Return to Mystery - Hans Boersma
- The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabatoge America - Andrew McCarthy
- From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany - Richard Weikart
- Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West - Christopher Caldwell
- Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old Fashioned Way - J. I. Packer and Gary A. Parrett
- Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis - Bat Ye’Or
- Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism - George H. Nash
- The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith - Peter Hitchens
- Calvin, Participation and the Gift: The Activity of Believers in Union with Christ - Todd Billings
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- Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky
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