by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jul 6, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Historians are adept at naming spans of time. We have the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Atomic Age, for example. I wonder how future generations will make sense of these times in which we live, in which many barely subsist. No doubt they will...
by Colin Harris | Jul 19, 2022 | Opinion
Immanuel Kant was one of the influential voices in what we now call the “Enlightenment.” In that period, mostly during the 18th century, the confluence of scientific discovery and philosophical inquiry ushered in what we now consider to be the modern age. Kant was...
by Richard Wilson | Nov 15, 2019 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on July 8, 2003. At the time of publication, Wilson was professor of theology and chair of the Roberts Department of Christianity at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. The idea of a Christian America is deeply entrenched in... by Larry Eubanks | Apr 29, 2015 | Opinion
Everybody should know their place and keep their place, including God. This perspective is an unfortunate result of the Enlightenment worldview, which distinguished between the sacred and the secular and formed the basis of our modern, Western worldview. It asserts...
