Monthly Archives: February 2011

Postmodern anthropology and justification by faith

Modernity tended to have an optimistic view of humanity: It emphasized universal and reliable human reason, human goodness, and human perfectibility.  It also emphasized universality in its anthropology — according to modernity, humans have a common mental and moral make-up.  In such a context, questions of righteousness were relatively easy – if humans weren’t already […]

Social media, here I come!

I’ve been meaning to start an academic blog for a while now, and today happens to finally be the day (in part because on previous days I tried, BU’s blog website was down 🙁  Anyway, the website’s up today, so today is the day. I also joined Twitter about two weeks ago and began using […]