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From inclusivism to (soft) pluralism?
In his contribution to the collection Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conversation, Keith Ward offers a sketch of three different kinds of Christian religious pluralism: Inclusive pluralism: The Wisdom of God that is embodied in Jesus is also available or present elsewhere. All humans participate in and can access this Wisdom, at least…
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For Gen-Xers only
I’ve really been enjoying the AV Club’s series “Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation?” It looks at the rise (and fall) of 90s alternative rock. The most recent installment on Kurt Cobain’s suicide and its aftermath is particularly good. (And I agree that Soundgarden is underrated!)
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Follow-up on Suchocki and pluralism
Kevin Kim (a.k.a. the Big Hominid) has some thoughts and questions riffing on my post about Marjorie Suchocki’s Divinity and Diverstiy. I think Kevin pinpoints a certain ambiguity in Suchocki’s position, one that I wrestled with. It seems to me that Suchocki could either be characterized as a pluralist or as a modified inclusivist. This…
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What kind of populism?
The premise of this Newsweek article is that Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is poised to become the leader of a bloc of conservative Senate Democrats–who, not coincidentally, are up for reelection in 2012–in opposing aspects of President Obama’s “progressive agenda.” Webb, we’re told, is a “Jacksonian populist” who thinks that Democrats don’t pay enough attention…
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Toward a Christian affirmation of religious pluralism
Over the holiday weekend I read Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki’s Divinity and Diversity: A Christian Affirmation of Religious Pluralism. Though it only clocks in at about 120 pages, it’s one of the better books I’ve read on the subject. Suchocki, professor emerita of the Claremont School of Theology and a noted process and feminist theologian, takes…
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Giving thanks?
Obviously, if you’re going to eat meat this is the way to do it. Still, I’ve always found the idea of “giving thanks” to an animal when you kill it to be kind of weird and self-serving. After all, it’s not like the animal has a choice. (Video at the link is fairly graphic.)
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The German miracle?
Mixing social democratic values with Jimmy Stewart localism, Germany’s economy is running rings around America’s. “What we have here is stakeholder capitalism, not shareholder capitalism,” says Hubner. And like most mittelstand [i.e., a family-owned small and mid-size manufacturing firm] owners, he adds: “I live where my company is located. I want a good image in…
