The New Paganism and the Rise of the Nietzscheans
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As the liberal order continues to collapse, rival voices have gained popularity—groups that aren’t content secularizing religion, but rejecting Christianity altogether. Old pagan arguments are resurrecting: the aesthetics of power, might-makes-right, vitalism and tyranny. Alex Denley and Dr. Andrew Willard Jones discuss their new series “The Politics of Paganism” and how Christianity can understand and defeat the pagan attacks against it. If you’d like to read ahead for the series: 1. Selections from the City of God by St. Augustine 2. The Republic by Plato 3. The Politics by Aristotle 4. Laws by Cicero 5. The Treatise on Law by St. Thomas Aquinas Subscribe to New Polity magazine!
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