Comments on: Christianity and Postmodernism: Richard Rorty and John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2008/01/03/christianity-and-postmodernism-by-dr-david-scott/ Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:28:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: phil swain http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2008/01/03/christianity-and-postmodernism-by-dr-david-scott/#comment-611 phil swain Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:29:43 +0000 http://www.leanderharding.com/blog/2008/01/03/christianity-and-postmodernism-by-dr-david-scott/#comment-611 Dr. Scott says that what is at stake is God's absolute freedom. This statement is pertinent because Pope Benedict has recently addressed this issue in his Regensberg speech. If I understand Pope Benedict correctly he's saying that God's freedom is grounded in truth which is another way of saying that it's rational. What Benedict was criticizing was a notion of the will of God being untethered from reason. Absolute freedom strikes me as a terrifying notion. I seriously doubt that Protestants will want to embrace Rorty's post-modernism as the cost of doing business without a Magisterium. Dr. Scott says that what is at stake is God’s absolute freedom. This statement is pertinent because Pope Benedict has recently addressed this issue in his Regensberg speech. If I understand Pope Benedict correctly he’s saying that God’s freedom is grounded in truth which is another way of saying that it’s rational. What Benedict was criticizing was a notion of the will of God being untethered from reason. Absolute freedom strikes me as a terrifying notion.

I seriously doubt that Protestants will want to embrace Rorty’s post-modernism as the cost of doing business without a Magisterium.

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