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Gary HartenburgChurchLiberal ArtsTheology and PracticePresenceFormation
In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates is shown to be very strange. In an episode related by Alcibiades, Socrates is said to have stood all day and night in an army
Matthew Lee Anderson
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 […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Francis Watson's Agape, Eros, Gender is a provocative treatment of Paul's views of sexuality and gender. Watson's analysis is provocative, but uneven. He is
Matthew Lee AndersonChurch
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
While I agree with Matthew Anderson’s critique of Lowry and Ponnuru’s article on American Exceptionalism in the latest issue of National Review, I do not believe the article
Matthew Lee Anderson
Chesterton's Orthodoxy tills the soil for the seeds of doctrine. His imaginative first principles are an antidote to modernity.
Matthew Lee Anderson
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
Via my brother, but it's so awesome it needs to be posted here as well.
Matthew Lee Anderson
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
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
Friends, Just a quick note this evening. Some of the our most recent posts have disappeared through no fault of the authors. Our site has been hacked, and we are
TexPoliticsPhilosophy
When Thomas Hobbes wrote his Leviathan, the English were in the midst of a series of civil wars, battling their brothers over religious and political issues. Charles I struggled with