“If
we carry back the antagonisms of the present to their ultimate principle, we
are obliged to confess that it is of a religious kind. The way in which a man
thinks of God and the world, and their relation to one another, is decisive for
the whole tendency of his thought, and even in the question of the purely
natural life.”
~ Christoph Ernest Luthardt, Apologie des Christentums
This reminds me of the often used words, "Ideas have consequences."
ReplyDeleteIndeed it does, Bishop Campbell. Pray y'all are well. I'm sure these words echo the title to Richard Weaver's work by the same title. I'm hoping to get to plow through that work and his other popular book (textbook, I believe), The Ethics of Rhetoric. Although too influenced by Platonism, and not enough by scripture, Weaver was a brilliant Southern scholar, who masterfully revealed that many of our modern socio-political and cultural woes were the direct result of the destruction of the Southern traditions, from the Reconstruction to his present day (which only grows worse as time passes). Pray y'all have a grace-filled and fruitful Lenten season!
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