tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805290335961306135.post7046979984025958960..comments2023-02-10T14:51:43.108-05:00Comments on There are More Things in Heaven and Earth: Are the things we know really things?Billiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05444391902853133843noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805290335961306135.post-22786546356891281022011-03-23T22:03:51.576-04:002011-03-23T22:03:51.576-04:00Auturgist: That is a very important question and w...Auturgist: That is a very important question and when I started to formulate my answer to it I realized that it deserved a full post so I hope you will swing back in a day or two by which time I hope to have something posted. In the mean time I can recommend C.S. Lewis' essay "Man or Rabbit" on the subject.Billiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05444391902853133843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805290335961306135.post-27190468018640436722011-03-23T22:02:15.326-04:002011-03-23T22:02:15.326-04:00Steve, I just got a chance to listen to the lectur...Steve, I just got a chance to listen to the lecture and Dr. Smith does make a useful distinction in it. I particularly like his suggestion that secular post-modernism stops short of its own project. It still leaves me a little confused though. It seems to me that there are two very separate things being talked about and called post-modernism. One is what Dr. Smith is talking about and I find that very exciting (although I'm not entirely clear on how it differs from pre-modernism as a worldview) and the other is a doctrine which many of my own students espouse and which they call post-modernism. This second thing defines itself by denying the existence of truth. They retreat to the subjective so that each person can have their "own truth" and live in their "own reality". I find this thing to be extremely worrying and I am still concerned that the second may spill over into the first, something I may have caught glimpses of on the non-the-religious-type blog (I'm the Bill that comments there). I would love to hear your thoughts on this one.Billiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05444391902853133843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805290335961306135.post-18863629536914621502011-03-22T20:49:56.897-04:002011-03-22T20:49:56.897-04:00Just out of curiosity: what is the difference betw...Just out of curiosity: what is the difference between believing in an absolute Christ versus an illusory Christ if the end result as it pertains to your life and behavior towards fellow man is the same?Auturgisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00291103726892699104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805290335961306135.post-38011428469076559072011-03-22T10:57:41.057-04:002011-03-22T10:57:41.057-04:00i think there are some really exciting ideas at wo...i think there are some really exciting ideas at work presently as well. as you might have noticed at the not-the-religious-type blog conversation along these lines, i like the distinction that james k.a. smith gives us here:<br /><br />http://vimeo.com/17928669steven hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08217945229037259663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5805290335961306135.post-51871726623897611352011-03-22T00:33:08.314-04:002011-03-22T00:33:08.314-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com