• Victor Hugo on Affirmation

    To sum up, no path is left open for thought by a philosophy that makes everything come to but one conclusion, the monosyllable "No." To "No," there is but one reply: "Yes." Nihilism has no scope. There is no nothing. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

  • Greg Wolfe on Christian Humanism

    In my mind, Christian humanism is about trying to balance, as in the Cross, the vertical and the horizontal axes of our existence; it’s an attempt to balance the human and the divine. The model for Christian humanism is the incarnation, in which a totally perfect balance between the divinity of Christ and the humanity of Jesus is achieved. I feel that the Christian life and Christian culture and institutions go wrong when they tend to emphasize one at the expense of the other. So in other words, the corollary of that initial definition is that if you emphasize the divine axis, the vertical axis over the horizontal, you get…