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Matthew Lee Anderson

Martin Luther King's Theological Legacy - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

On a day when we honor a man committed to racial reconciliation, Fred Sanders offers this responsible analysis of Martin Luther’s theological tradition,  strengths and weaknesses: But mainly, MLK saw a big issue coming his way and knew to lean […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Typological Reading and the Christian Text - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

How should we then read? It is a question with which I have occasionally wrestled. My freshman year of college, I was introduced to the world of hermeneutics, which seemed at the time to be the discipline of debunking other […]

Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature

Irony, Awakening, and Dissolution

Irony, Awakening, and Dissolution

Tex

Winds of Life - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Flying is really quite simple—all you really have to know is that when you pull back the houses and trees get smaller, and when you push forward the houses and trees get larger; that and a judicious use of the […]

Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature

Hierarchy and the Body: Esolen on Adam and Eve

Hierarchy and the Body: Esolen on Adam and Eve

Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature

A Critical Masterpiece: Ironies of Faith

A Critical Masterpiece: Ironies of Faith

TexUncategorized

Year in Review (belated)

Year in Review (belated)

Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized

The Cynicism of Post-Modernism

The Cynicism of Post-Modernism

Keith E. BuhlerTheology and Practice

The Energy of God -- Aristotle, East and West

The Energy of God -- Aristotle, East and West

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Huckabee, the Wealthy, and Chestertonian Economics

Huckabee, the Wealthy, and Chestertonian Economics

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Huckabee and the Evangelicals - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The standard line leading up to the Iowa victory was that Mitt Romney was losing support because of the evangelical rejection of his Mormon faith.  In fact, most pundits preferred to ignore evidence to the contrary, labeling Mike Huckabee’s rise […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Presidential Politics: Give us Lincoln, not Reagan - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It’s no small irony that Huckabee started to fall behind in his “rapid response” to the litany of attacks (and miscues) that he has made in recent weeks just about the time Joe Carter left his campaign. Joe has posted […]