Posted in america, arthur mcgill, atonement on May 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I just finished reading a pretty fantastic book by Arthur McGill called Life and Death: An American Theology. He is one of those authors that have a way of packing the entire content of their message into every sentence they write. So, if you care to read this book, be ready to be [...]
Posted in Luther, america, fiction, grace, herman melville on April 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Arthur McGill, in a phenomenal book entitled Life and Death: An American Theology, makes the argument that the ethos of America at large is marked by a fatal need to extinguish all visible signs of death from its existence. This, for him, is motivated by an ultimate fear of death, wherein one believes it [...]
Posted in america, emerson, evangelicalism on March 23, 2007 | 8 Comments »
At the risk of glaring selectivity, I must nevertheless point out three predominant features of the American mythos: 1) Liberty, by which we mean self-determination, freedom from the external demands of others; 2) Prosperity, by which we mean the possession of expendable wealth; and 3) Security, by which we mean the extermination of all threats [...]
Posted in Barak, america, conservatism, health care, obama on March 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Barak Obama, as far as I can tell (which knowledge comes from scanning his book for about half an hour at Costco) is a good man, and a genuine Christian. From his stump speech, he is much more optimistic about the potential of Americanism than I am but there are quite a few things [...]
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