“Contrary to the theory of evolution, we are not over-developed animals who moved away from the ‘natural’ and down into the ‘artificial.’ For man, the artificial is natural. We want nothing to do with Rousseau’s noble savage.”

Ploductivity, p. 41

“We are told other things about the Second Person of the Trinity elsewhere in Scripture—He is the icon of God, He is the wisdom of God, He is the Son of God, He is the light from God, and so on. But there is a peculiar primacy given to the Word. This is that which defines all else.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 47

“This contributes to the problem that many Christians have, which is assuming that tools are extraneous to our humanity, and not essential. Somebody thought them up, and perhaps they shouldn’t have. But when we see that tools are a subset of media, and that media were obviously a gifts from God, given to us through the mere fact of creation, we should become much more comfortable with the idea of tools as essential to our humanity.”

Ploductivity, p. 37

“Cultures pass through aesthetic phases as they rise and fall, and the last phase is the phase of decadence. It is the phase in which sensate spectacle is glorified, and it is a sign, not of glory but of decrepitude.”

Let the Stones Cry Out, p. 45