On Supersessionism

by Hans Boersma

It is not ethnic descent but union with Christ that determines one’s place in the household of God. Continue Reading »

5 Dec 2019

Turning Inward

by Carl R. Trueman

The most immediate and pressing ecumenical question for Protestants is not their relationship to Rome but their relationship to one another. From the moment Luther refused to accept Zwingli’s memorialist view of the Lord’s Supper at Marburg in 1529, the history of Protestantism has followed the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2019

Briefly Noted

by Nathaniel Peters

The great liberal Protestant theologian Adolf von ­Harnack argued that the simple, wholly ethical message of Christ was obscured over time by being mixed with Greek ideas. This corruption, he said, culminated in the Council of Chalcedon’s definition of Christ as one person with two natures, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2019

Does Natural Law Need Theology?

by David Novak

Until quite recently, natural law thinking had been a Catholic preserve. My interest in it was awakened during my days as a Jewish undergraduate at the University of Chicago, by the great Leo Strauss—himself a serious, though nonobservant, Jew. When I told Strauss of my interest in natural . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2019

Demon of Disunity

by Hans Boersma

Prayer gives us entry into the eschaton, where we see the eternal glory of the Son of God. Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2019

Newman’s Shocking Faith

by Dan Hitchens

The real meaning of “faith” can be discovered in the writings of John Henry Newman.  Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2019

Letters From the Synod–2019: #2

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

Catholics are growing dispirited by a Church that increasingly presents itself as a global NGO whose primary concerns are political rather than spiritual.  Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2019

Letters From the Synod-2019: #1

Edited by Xavier Rynne II

The Amazon Synod will expose theological and doctrinal tensions within Catholicism that have roiled the Church for the past half-century. Continue Reading »

7 Oct 2019

Harrowing Hart on Hell

by Douglas Farrow

David Bentley Hart, familiar to readers of these pages as an intellectual pugilist who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, has entered the ring for the Big Fight. Armed with his recent translation of the New Testament, he is ready to prove that no one suffers eternal . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2019

Fear of the Word

by Hans Boersma

My students are afraid to preach—not all of them, but more and more, it seems. And it is often the brightest and most eloquent, those who are least justified in parroting Moses’s excuse—“I am slow of speech and of tongue”—who lack the confidence to open the Scriptures for the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2019