The Modern Moralist
@modernmoralist.bsky.social
Free Will Skeptic. Holy Fool. Ethical Sentimentalist. Rogue MA.
What are your thoughts on religious fictionalism?
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
What are your thoughts on religious fictionalism?
Public theology has its virtues and vices. The broad platform can inflate one’s ego without demanding intellectual rigour, while the demand for accessibility might force one to develop a theology for the people rather than for the half dozen near-dead seminarians who care now.
November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Public theology has its virtues and vices. The broad platform can inflate one’s ego without demanding intellectual rigour, while the demand for accessibility might force one to develop a theology for the people rather than for the half dozen near-dead seminarians who care now.
Lucky, but he had no business teaching aesthetics.
November 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Lucky, but he had no business teaching aesthetics.
Like public philosophy is, say, political or moral theorizing for and to form a broad audience, it is the work of talking and thinking about God made accessible to, and for the benefit of, the interested layperson. The topics and the text is formed by the audience’s needs.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Like public philosophy is, say, political or moral theorizing for and to form a broad audience, it is the work of talking and thinking about God made accessible to, and for the benefit of, the interested layperson. The topics and the text is formed by the audience’s needs.
One of my favourite Christians citing one of my other favourite Christians. It’s a good day!
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
One of my favourite Christians citing one of my other favourite Christians. It’s a good day!
Whoops no sorry
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Whoops no sorry
I am overjoyed when I see your posts
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I am overjoyed when I see your posts
Pagan… or Anglican
November 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Pagan… or Anglican
Haruki Murakami and Horizon Forbidden West
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Haruki Murakami and Horizon Forbidden West
Can I recommend three articles? Try Cuneo on “entering through death”, DeRose on why no one knows in religion, and Andrew Chignell on liturgical philosophy. Embrace the activity of the religious life and abandon the quest to know.
October 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Can I recommend three articles? Try Cuneo on “entering through death”, DeRose on why no one knows in religion, and Andrew Chignell on liturgical philosophy. Embrace the activity of the religious life and abandon the quest to know.
Okay, but I do empathize and feel for your suffering’. Maybe write a series of Substack posts, and I can cheer on the healin’
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Okay, but I do empathize and feel for your suffering’. Maybe write a series of Substack posts, and I can cheer on the healin’
Eternally sleepless 3am
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Eternally sleepless 3am
“So, you’re saying even ex-parrots are conscious? This is called spam-psychism?”
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“So, you’re saying even ex-parrots are conscious? This is called spam-psychism?”
We still need Barth’s Big Ideas in Tweet form.
October 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
We still need Barth’s Big Ideas in Tweet form.
If you ever write memoirs, I promise not to steal them off of libgen but genuinely buy them. Your wit and wisdom were legendary in my younger years of studying under a towering zen Dutchman.
October 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If you ever write memoirs, I promise not to steal them off of libgen but genuinely buy them. Your wit and wisdom were legendary in my younger years of studying under a towering zen Dutchman.
The memories… or lack thereof… I had there!
October 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The memories… or lack thereof… I had there!
I’m a known expert in participant observation regarding a variety of forms of vice ethics.
September 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’m a known expert in participant observation regarding a variety of forms of vice ethics.
I have quit it many times
September 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I have quit it many times