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I thought that I would continue Xavier’s examination of Anselm by looking at his view of the Atonement.  I find Anselm very interesting because it seems to me his theology reveals a lot about how people in the medieval world thought.  He was a man of the times so to speak. 
This comes out in his [...]

In class tonight my professor made an interesting observation regarding the “postmodern movement.”
 His point was that postmodernism isn’t necessarily a “shift” but rather a strain, albeit a radical one, within modernity.
To illustrate this point he pointed us to one of Johnny-Dee’s favorite philosophers, Rene Descartes.  Descartes is widely believed to have ushered in the enlightenment/modernity [...]