“The same impulse that makes us want our books to have a plot makes us want our lives to have a plot. We need to feel that we are getting somewhere, making progress. There is something in us tha… more →
THE BIG PICTUREfredeaton wrote 2 months ago: “The same impulse that makes us want our books to have a plot makes us want our lives to have … more →
pypaik wrote 6 months ago: As usual, Steven Shaviro has an excellent post, this time on J. G. Ballard at Pinocchio Theory. Here … more →
fredeaton wrote 7 months ago: “One way of understanding [the Enlightenment] is to think of it as a Christian heresy. What Ch … more →
fredeaton wrote 9 months ago: “The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the hu … more →
fredeaton wrote 10 months ago: Carl E. Braaten describes a form of neopaganism that sounds alarmingly like a lot of the therapeutic … more →
fredeaton wrote 11 months ago: “The cold logic of mid-twentieth century atheism has now given way to an era of renewed … more →
fredeaton wrote 11 months ago: “The central issue with which Our Time must now reckon: the loss of its center. The world is n … more →
fredeaton wrote 11 months ago: Reflecting on our rebellion against God and the idolatry of self from Romans 1:18-32, Karl Barth mak … more →