Theology

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The Consolation of Philology

Michael C. Legaspi

Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by james turner princeton, 576 pages, $35 She appeared…

False Freedom

R. R. Reno

The majority opinion in Obergefell, written by Justice Kennedy, opens with a grand claim about the nature…

Newman for Protestants

Carl R. Trueman

I discovered John Henry Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua on a rainy morning in Cambridge in 1994. I…

Epithalamion

Wendy Sloan

We mark the days that tell us who we are, / staccato days that give our lives…

The Wreckage of Obergefell

Michael Stokes Paulsen

Every generation, it seems, has its paradigm-defining Supreme Court case: a decision (or series of decisions) that…

Theology’s Umpire

Kathryn Tanner

Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures by paul griffiths baylor, 408 pages, $69.95 T here is…

Holy Warriors

Gabriel Said Reynolds

In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire by robert g. hoyland…

St. Paul and Consumer Society

Peter J. Leithart

According to many contemporary scholars, the apostle Paul didn’t object to “Judaizers” because they taught that salvation…

Trashing Luther

Russell E. Saltzman

Theological hobbyists of a hyper-Catholic sort continue to misconstrue Luther’s “errors.” Oh, I hardly think he was…

A Guide Through the Thicket

Jordan Hylden

Renewing Moral Theology: Christian Ethics as Action, Character, and Grace  by daniel a. westberg ivp academic, 281…

Theology Worth Smuggling

Timothy George

When Harvey Cox was a student minister in Berlin in 1962, one year after the erection of…

The Myth of America’s Religious Founding

Mark David Hall

Inventing a Christian America: The Myth of the Religious Founding  by Steven K. Green Oxford, 312 pages,…

A Benign Reading of a Confusing Paragraph

Janet E. Smith

When I was asked to sign the Appeal critiquing Paragraph 137, I initially agreed with the reading of…

Learned Ignorance

Peter J. Leithart

On Wednesday evening, a capacity crowd assembled at the Calvary Chapel on the campus of Biola University…

An Appeal

David S. Crawford

An Instrumentum laboris (working paper) was prepared for the XIV Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops…