Saturday, June 16, 2007

"Everything else is postmodern chatter.”

Philip Jenkins, in an article about the resurgence of European Christianity:
Jürgen Habermas, a veteran leftist German philosopher stunned his admirers not long ago by proclaiming, “Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this day, we have no other options [than Christianity]. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter.”
Foreign Policy: Europe's Christian Comeback

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