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It’s also worth noting that anyone with a background in philosophy knows that presuppositional apologetics is proto-postmodern. This has always been a strike against it in my mind, and evidence that it owes something to Kant. Hunter seems to be of the opinion that it is something Calvinism should own. I’m selling, and have been for years. When “Truth” must be placed in scare quotes in order to be welcomed to the table, you’ve lost.

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Yeah, when he talks about Calvinism and post-secular philosophy, my impression is that he's referring to presuppositional apologetics. Which would make sense because he and Keller were close and Keller was a presup guy.

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The one thing I really agreed with was his assertion that culture was based on religion. As Henry Van Til said, "Culture is religion externalized". My issue with what Mr. Hunter has put out is that even after he mentions that, he never really talks about the religious basis of the right or the left, and how that is driving the division.

We are in a culture war, but that is really a religious war. How will you ever reconcile groups that hate Christ and biblical principles with those who love Christ or at least those principles?

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I groaned when he said, “robust pluralism” after noting that postmodernism runs the show. Wonder why nihilism is behind everything? There you go. Richard Rorty, really? BTW, classical Realist metaphysics wasn’t disproven, just found inconvenient.

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BTW: His book actually uses Rorty as one of the people he uses to illustrate the dissolution of the hybrid Enlightenment.

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I’m not interested in defending the hybrid enlightenment. I’m not sure Hunter believes in the fundamental discovery of the West—namely, that there is a Reality behind appearances. We used to call that Reality, “Logos.” It’s the basis for the academic disciplines—e.g. Hunter’s: “socioLOGY.” I’m not picking on Hunter. Most academics don’t study the roots of the Western thought.

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Wow, that guy is hard to listen to.

BTW there is no middle ground that will work with the hard left. It isn't hard, it is simply impossible to coexist with the wacky left (they refuse). This is simply a war that has not yet gone completely hot but the day will come when does.

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Perhaps I missed it, but did Mr. Hunter give any examples of this nihilism that is in both the left andthe right?

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he did not

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I guess so I can buy his book.

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