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Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Worship: The Appropriate Response to Concupiscence

Worship: The Appropriate Response to Concupiscence

Matthew Lee AndersonChurch

Practices and the New Ecclesiology

Focusing on the practices of the church is all the rage these days.  Professor Smith’s excellent and thought provoking book is only the latest volley in a long list of theologians attempting to reorient the center of Christianity away from […]

Andrew WalkerUncategorized

European (un)Exceptionalism

European (un)Exceptionalism

Matthew Lee Anderson

Soils for the Seeds of Doctrine: Chesterton's Orthodoxy as the Antidote to Modernity

Chesterton's Orthodoxy tills the soil for the seeds of doctrine. His imaginative first principles are an antidote to modernity.

Matthew Lee Anderson

The Possibility of a "Third Thing" Between Society and Biology

David Schaengold has a fascinating post up over at Ordinary Gentlemen (one of the most interesting spots on the internets) that examines the steps our social views on homosexuality have undergone.  He writes: This response further solidifies the reality of an […]

Andrew WalkerUncategorized

Every Ten Year Old's Dream

Every Ten Year Old's Dream

Matthew Lee Anderson

One more on Protestant Aesthetics

The substance of Dyrness’ essay highlights the Protestant emphasis on the brokenness of the world, and on the crucifixion as the only remedy for that brokenness.  But Dyrness points out that the emphasis on Jesus’ crucifixion isn’t on the event […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Art is Eschatology

Whether a Protestant aesthetics is possible remains, unfortunately, a question which Protestants must answer. In “Dante, Bunyan, and a Case for Protestant Aesthetics,” William Dyrness  argues that not only do Protestants have an aesthetics, but have one that is shaped […]

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

A Brief Update Regarding Technical Problems

A Brief Update Regarding Technical Problems

TexPoliticsPhilosophy

Old and Relevant: Leviathan

Old and Relevant: Leviathan

Gary HartenburgPhilosophyTheology and PracticeThomas Says

Thomas Says: A Recap on Killing

Thomas Says: A Recap on Killing

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

Agrarianism: The Inevitable End of Technocracy? (Updated/Bumped)

Agrarianism: The Inevitable End of Technocracy? (Updated/Bumped)