The Archive
Matthew Lee Anderson
John Fawcett was a Baptist. If you listen to critics of Baptists (and evangelicals), he should have had no idea about the role that community played in the Christian life. The emphasis on individual salvation, personal piety, and going to […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
The Dispatch: The Theology of Technology with John Dyer
Matthew Lee Anderson
Over the past few years, we have occasionally engaged in that practice which the church calls “apologetics” here at Mere Orthodoxy. We never did it, I think, out of some sort of anxiety about the reliability of our Christian faith […]
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
Suggest My Book's Title, Win Fame and Glory (in Heaven)
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Filling the Lost Shape Hole: Friday Night Lights
Matthew Lee Anderson
The case for Shakespeare’s Catholicism may be a bit shaky, but Anthony Esolen recently made a compelling case that the Christian virtue of chastity is indispensable for understanding his plays. He writes: There is an abundance of evidence to show that Shakespeare […]
Matthew Lee AndersonMetaphysics (Ontology)
The New Dualisms
Matthew Lee AndersonReading the Hymns
Reading the Hymns: Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsPolitical Theology
Government according to O'Donovan
Andrew WalkerPolitics
Justin Taylor, on his blog, has quoted a very helpful and thoughtful clarifying statement from John Murray on the interplay between the church and politics, but more particularly about how Christians go about doing politics as Christians and also as […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
The brilliant Jake Meador followed up the discussion below on the nature of work by attempting to bring together Sayers and Lewis: My proposed reconciliation of the two views can be stated thus: The world is sacramental (the lowercase s […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Working to Live (or, Sayers v. Lewis)