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Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Walking as Political Expression

Walking as Political Expression

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Questioning the Body: A Plea for Help

Questioning the Body: A Plea for Help

Matthew Lee AndersonMetaphysics (Ontology)

Which Dualism, Whose Description?

“Dualism” is a dirty word. Whether it refers to bodies and souls, men and women, reason and emotion, gender and sex, binary thinking is no longer in. The rejection of dualisms takes different forms, depending on which intellectual tradition you’re […]

Jeremy MannTheology and PracticeFormation

Can a Man Be Profitable to God?

Can a Man Be Profitable to God?

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Frivolity of Beauty

Modern interpretation and preaching about the Song of Songs is largely characterized by its reaction against classical notions of ‘allegory’ that mitigated the sexual content of the book by making it all about YHWH and his people. The defensive posture […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Novels against Marriage

In light of Rhett’s interesting (and true!) thoughts on what novels do for us, I was intrigued to read Francis Watson’s rather critical comments of their form in western literature: The assumption that ‘love’ (or ‘romantic love’) is the primary […]

Matthew Lee AndersonBible

The Gospel to the Phillipians

The Gospel to the Phillipians

Matthew Lee AndersonGender

The Incarnation and Male/Female Mutuality

The Incarnation and Male/Female Mutuality

TexPoliticsLiberal ArtsHistory/Church History

Fear and Greatness: Why American Citizens Should Worry That the Terror of Terrorism Has Such Little Effect on the Behaviors and Beliefs of Men

Fear and Greatness: Why American Citizens Should Worry That the Terror of Terrorism Has Such Little Effect on the Behaviors and Beliefs of Men

Matthew Lee Anderson

Notes from around the Web

It’s been a busy week for me, and I haven’t gotten a chance to do justice to many of the interesting content I’ve come across.  So for your pleasure, here’s some thoughts worthy of your attention: Dietrich Bonhoeffer takes on […]

Gary HartenburgChurchLiberal ArtsTheology and PracticePresenceFormation

Socrates, Remy, and the Solitary Contemplation of Beauty

Socrates, Remy, and the Solitary Contemplation of Beauty

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Broader Exceptionalism: Responding to Ponnuru and Lowry

Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry have a response to their critics up at National Review, and they saw fit to include me in their targets.  They write: Our essay attracted some criticism from the right as well. Matthew Lee Anderson faults […]