Plus if the man actually finds the “who Marxist tradition pretty Christian”,
> he can’t be all that bad. He probably means that in a negative sense, but at
> least he is making the connection to morality. :-)
>
No, in a good way. You can probably gather something of his basic thrust here:
http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2010/04/god-order-wisdom-paul-love
It doesn't get to the point as directly as the first couple pages of this (which, unfortunately, can't be previewed online):
http://www.amazon.com/Fragile-Absolute-Christian-Legacy-Fighting/dp/1859843263
And yes, he has quite a bit to say about amoral pretensions/cultural relativism. The older I get, the funnier I find that sort of thing. Different people may have varying moralities, but a person denying any morality, or that morality shapes her/his politics, strikes me as about as believable as a person denying any language, or that language shapes her/his perspective on life. Maybe it's true of that feral child shag posted about a little while ago, but that's about it.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."