Summit Lecture Series

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The Journal

2011-07 Summit Journal
IN THIS ISSUE:
» pg. 2 | Letter from the Editor
» pg. 3 | A Look at Our World
* Christianity, Energy and Economics, Ethics, and Politics
* More articles can be found in the online version of The Journal at summit.org

2011-02 Summit Journal
IN THIS ISSUE:
» pg. 2 | Letter from the Editor
» pg. 3 | A Look at Our World
* Christianity, Economics, Ethics, Politics, and Communism
* More articles can be found in the online version of The Journal at summit.org

2010-05 Summt Journal
» pg. 2 | Summit Alumni Spotlight: Candice Watters
» pg. 3 | Letter from the Editor: David A. Noebel
» pg. 4 | Highlights from around the Globe
* Christianity, Origins, Ethics, Communism, and Social Justice

2009-12 Summit Journal
» pg. 2 | Summit Alumni Spotlight
» pg. 3 | Letter from the Editor
» pg. 4 | Highlights from around the Globe
Christianity, History, Ethics, and Politics

2009-09 Summit Journal
» Student Worldview Conference Update | pgs. 2 » Highlights from around the Globe | pgs. 4–7 Biblical Christianity, Economics and Health Care, the Environment, and Ethics

Essays

Can We Be Good without God? (via Boundless)
I've been asked to speak today on the question, "Can we be good without God?" To answer, I'm tempted to tell you my own story. Years ago when I rejected God, I also rejected the distinction between good and evil. Then again, I was an extreme case. Someone who asks "Can we be good without God?" isn't trying to be extreme; he's looking for a halfway house. So instead of telling you my story, I'll try to lay out the logic of the matter...

No God, No Good
At a conference concerning the teaching of moral values in the public schools, a justifiably well-known philosopher from an eastern university asserted that the moral virtues were (1) those values without which we humans do not flourish because they are rooted in human nature, and (2) those values that enjoy a consensus that spans culture, country and century, something like the Tao described at the end of C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man. That moral values described or derived in either of these two ways are not truly moral and are not truly absolutes. As the following analysis will demonstrate, one must not contend that human nature and human flourishing yield moral absolutes, properly so-called, because such a theory fails to account for...

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