Pluralistic
Pluralistic Judaism by Peter Berger. In its May 2013 issue, First Things published an article by Edward Shapiro under the title “The Crisis of Conservative Judaism”. The last phrase does not refer to conservatism in general, but to the specific [...]
Tinsel
Secularists With Bible Tinsel by Douglas Wilson. Civilizations believe things. If they didn’t believe things, they couldn’t be civilizations. Nothing ever gets built, whether pyramid or skyscraper, if everybody is just wandering around in aimless little circles muttering that whatever [...]
Historical?
What Depends Upon An Historical Adam? by Steven Wedgeworth. Modern evangelicalism has always had something of an identity problem. Wanting to be neither Fundamentalism nor Liberalism, it has often found itself unable to sit comfortably in the middle. More often [...]
Good?
Biblical Scholarship: What’s It Good For? by Greg Carey. The story circulates around seminaries and religion departments. I hope I’m telling it correctly. In Yale’s regular seminar for religion faculty and grad students, a highly accomplished biblical scholar set forth [...]
Luther
Non-Lutherans Reading Luther: What Makes “Good Works” Good? by Mathew Block. See here.
Despised
A big reason evangelicals (Tim Tebow anyone?) are despised by so many today in the U.S. Study: Evangelicals More ‘Christ-like’ Than Other Christians by Michael Gryboski. Among various Christian groups in the United States, evangelicals were found to be the [...]
A Life
Paul Johnson reviews ‘C.S. Lewis: A Life’ by Alister McGrath. But the fact is, Lewis was a genius. I was never in any doubt about that. The first grown-up book I read voluntarily, when I was 14, was A Preface [...]
New?
A New Public Theology for Evangelicals? by Mark Tooley. Last week evangelical Wheaton College professor Noah Toly responded to my post in First Things on some evangelical elites lobbying in Washington, D.C. for currently debated immigration proposals. Among other critiques, [...]
Hart
Sheer Hart Attack: Morality, Rationality, and Theology by Edward Feser. Natural law theory makes a very limited, but very important claim—that there is common ground between all human beings, and particularly between religious believers and non-believers, on which moral disagreements [...]
Quest
Evangelicals on a Quest for a New Identity by Kristin Rudolph. Evangelicals are in the midst of an identity crisis. Insecurity about their “culture warrior” image in recent decades has prompted some Evangelicals to question their role in the public [...]
Unbelievable
Liberals are in full swing spinning the role religion played in the actions by the Tsarnaev brothers. (For a more accurate picture, see here.) To a liberal, Islam cannot be the primary motivating factor, it has to be the fault [...]
Mystery
The Mystery of Original Sin by Marguerite Shuster. Legend has it that G. K. Chesterton, asked by a newspaper reporter what was wrong with the world, skipped over all the expected answers. He said nothing about corrupt politicians or ancient [...]
Relevant
The Reformation Is Still Relevant — Really Relevant by Ron Rittgers. How has modern western society come to be the way it is — namely, hyperpluralized? How are we to account historically for the fact that contemporary western society is [...]
Baptists
John 3:16 Conference Addresses Calvinism by Aaron Earls. While stressing that the discussion between Calvinists and non-Calvinists in the Southern Baptist Convention is a family matter, speakers at the 2013 John 3:16 Conference outlined the differences between the two views [...]
Labberton
Here’s two interviews with the new President of Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Labberton. Christianity Today Philosophical Fragments
Bell III
Here’s the latest review of Rob Bell’s new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God.
Thomas
You can read an excerpt from Aquinas and the Supreme Court: Biblical Narratives of Jews, Gentiles and Gender by Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. here. (pdf)
Spirituality
You can read an excerpt from Four Views on Christian Spirituality, edited by Bruce Demarest, here. (pdf)
Messianic
Read an excerpt from Introduction to Messianic Judaism, edited by David Rudolph and Joel Willitts, here. (pdf)
Judaica
Evangelical Ketubah, Messianic Mezuzah: Judaica for Christians by Hillary Kaell. Carrie Love is a self-professed “Scripture nerd.” Raised in an evangelical church in Louisiana, she now lives in Manhattan where she works at an educational non-profit and attends Central Presbyterian [...]