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I finally read Gilead. Cannot decide whether I am beguiled or nauseated. It’s a remarkable attempt to describe how a rich culture could be contrived just out of the Bible

This is staggeringly incoherent. Mason admits that capitalism now exerts unjust extraction as much through lending and information as though labour, but then argues that the end of labour, since

Do I think that 90% of the pop including Catholics raising their families but using artificial contraception are thereby involved in intrinsic evil? Do I think that practising gay couples

To escape from the postmodern dominance of simulacra is not so easy in secular terms. For Pomo is so far right: there are no unmediated, unrepresented or ‘added to’ facts.

‘Harmony is the common bond of separate thinkers’ (Philolaus). ‘Of the separate thinkers who think together there is, in all rigour, only one example, that is the Trinity’ (Simone Weil)

Of course the themed identity theology you mention (liberation, local, ‘practice based’ black, feminist, queer, trans, disability etc etc) is tiresome careerist and naturally elitist bollocks. But no one serious

The Jury Is Still Out on Europe’s Religious Future | Christianity Todayhttps://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/june-web-only/olivier-roy-europe-christian-secular-1960s.html We are indeed still living out the irony that with Vatican 2 th

Where to begin? Perhaps only in England does one still find intellectuals holding to the Victorian agnostic belief that ‘Christianity destroyed classical civilisation’. Over 100 years of scholarship has showed