A Pakaluk of Lies

by David Bentley Hart

The reason that Farrow, McClymond, Pakaluk and others cannot address the real argument in That All Shall Be Saved is that they are incapable of answering it.  Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2020

Heaven in History

by Peter J. Leithart

A review of N. T. Wright’s History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology. Continue Reading »

13 Feb 2020

Letters

by Various

I don’t suppose it will be easy for Carl Trueman (“Turning Inward,” December 2019) and me to avoid talking past each other, but let’s give it a try. My book, The Meaning of Protestant Theology, is not an effort to engage with secondary literature. (Gerhard Forde? Never read him; don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020

Loving to Know

by N. T. Wright

In many spheres, the question not just of what we know but of how we know is urgent and vital. I have tried to develop the notion of love as the ultimate form of knowledge and to explore its wider relevance. My history with this question begins in the 1980s, when I was growing concerned by profound . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020

Briefly Noted

by Moriah Speciale

In 1901, Rev. Maltbie Babcock wrote in a well-known hymn that God “shines in all that’s fair.” Like Calvin, Edwards, and Babcock before her, Marilynne Robinson presents in her writings a world suffused with theological significance. Robinson is known primarily as a novelist, but anyone who has . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2020

Christmas, Freedom, and Obedience

by George Weigel

True freedom, genuine liberation, comes through freely chosen obedience to God’s purposes. Continue Reading »

25 Dec 2019

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