Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Consolation of Philology
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by james turner princeton, 576 pages, $35 She appeared…
False Freedom
The majority opinion in Obergefell, written by Justice Kennedy, opens with a grand claim about the nature…
Newman for Protestants
I discovered John Henry Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua on a rainy morning in Cambridge in 1994. I…
Epithalamion
We mark the days that tell us who we are, / staccato days that give our lives…
The Wreckage of Obergefell
Every generation, it seems, has its paradigm-defining Supreme Court case: a decision (or series of decisions) that…
Theology’s Umpire
Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures by paul griffiths baylor, 408 pages, $69.95 T here is…
Holy Warriors
In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire by robert g. hoyland…
St. Paul and Consumer Society
According to many contemporary scholars, the apostle Paul didn’t object to “Judaizers” because they taught that salvation…
Trashing Luther
Theological hobbyists of a hyper-Catholic sort continue to misconstrue Luther’s “errors.” Oh, I hardly think he was…
A Guide Through the Thicket
Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character, and Grace by daniel a. westberg ivp academic, 281…
Theology Worth Smuggling
When Harvey Cox was a student minister in Berlin in 1962, one year after the erection of…
The Myth of America’s Religious Founding
Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding by Steven K. Green Oxford, 312 pages,…
A Benign Reading of a Confusing Paragraph
When I was asked to sign the Appeal critiquing Paragraph 137, I initially agreed with the reading of…
Learned Ignorance
On Wednesday evening, a capacity crowd assembled at the Calvary Chapel on the campus of Biola University…
An Appeal
An Instrumentum laboris (working paper) was prepared for the XIV Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops…