I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.