An Excerpt from 'Magician and Mechanic' by Michael Horton

January 27th, 2026 | 7 min read

The following excerpt from Michael Horton, Magician and Mechanic: The Roots of “Spiritual but Not Religious” from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution (Eerdmans, 2026) is published with permission from Eerdmans Publishing.

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Michael Horton

Dr. Michael Horton is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sola Media and serves as the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California.

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An Excerpt from 'Magician and Mechanic' by Michael Horton

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