Why I am not a Communitarian
…form of authority we generally think of; it is the form that Fukuyama classifies as ‘Hierarchical–Rational’. Second is the church, in which I tend to include religious institutions in general…
…form of authority we generally think of; it is the form that Fukuyama classifies as ‘Hierarchical–Rational’. Second is the church, in which I tend to include religious institutions in general…
…to demean it. Similarly many Christians might hold that ultimately to reject Christ is to insult God. But Christians have 300 years of persecution at the beginning of the Church…
…I took, though I did not take very many because it’s my wife’s hobby to photograph churches and ecclesiastical art and so I don’t try to compete with her in…
…where the boy faced the shotgun wedding, or at least a long peonage to support his child. And, in regard to the recent fracas with the Catholic Church, does contraception…
…heritage is predominantly Quaker, a privatized culture, the state tends to be dominated politically by Pittsburgh and its Scotch-Irish Calivinist and Low Church Anglican heritage. Could San Francisco be the…
…sex, domestic care, etc. – without committing? The church [and at one time the general culture] frankly recommends a Lysistrata-like strategy to deal with this! Instead of withholding sex until…
…find a sign that I think I once saw, “Mecca Baptist Church,” but we found only a Catholic and a charismatic church and no mosques, much less any large black…
…in a New England culture that had a ‘common church.’ And since we no longer have, and should not have, a ‘common church,’ there is no reason for a ‘common…
…went inside. A painted fan, San Miguel church There were a few rooms to see, but then we discovered that the church was outside the ‘fee area’ of the mission…
…issue, and would, under these circumstances will their property to (ahem . . .) the Church! But they also improved the status of women, because “The church made it difficult…