Herbert Butterfield

Herbert Butterfield, despite having been one of the world’s foremost Christian Realists, was deeply conflicted on nuclear arms.

Wishful Thinking Idealism, unlike Christian Realism, believes that everyone, even competition, is fundamentally reasonable.

The world gets better and at sundry times through the action of people who did not realize what they were doing.”    

Butterfield did not offer us Christian apologetics, but he did offer a Christian understanding of history far more appealing than Lewis’s dismissal of the project.     

How do Christian Realism, Christian idealism and Christian cynicism approach the Ukraine War?

Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press argue in “The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution” that the Atomic Age isn’t too different from other ages. Geopolitical rivalries, arms races, military doctrines, stalemates, and much else are still the same.

Herbert Butterfield’s Christian faith essentially inspired his view of history and government and made him the English forerunner of a hopeful Christian Realism as an alternative to both Western secular materialist liberalism and collectivist atheist Marxism.

The last time I cried was in 2013.  I was finishing a tour of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in…

American Christians should advocate for exhaustive attempts at diplomacy before endorsing US policies that produce further conflict and chaos.