Wednesday, July 05, 2006

The Failure of the Liberal Paradigm - Professor Oliver O'Donovan

http://www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/comments/the_failure_of_the_liberal_paradigm/

[Global South Anglican] July 5, 2006--Liberalism fails to bring a critical practical reason to bear on the present world. In its pursuit of doctrinal reconstruction it treats the moral questions of the age as moral certainties, it views the indeterminate shapes of the present as sharp outlines. It may even imagine that in the present it can find some kind of speculative counterweight to correct a bias in past and transcendent reality. Instead of looking to the world as a frame within which to serve God and neighbour, it looks to it for a demonstration that in the past reality was misunderstood.

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