The Archive
Matthew Lee Anderson
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
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
Esolen’s Ironies of Faith hangs upon the premise that the Christian understands irony differently than his secular neighbor. Esolen writes: Contemporary literary theorists have attempted to distill the essence
Tex
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
One of the more useful aspects of Anthony Esolen’s Ironies of Faith (see my review here) is that his exploration of Christian literature highlights the disparity between their worldview
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
Unless criticism is so profound and stirring that it assumes the same plane as the artwork criticized, it will always be derivative. Its secondary nature, however, does not entail that
TexUncategorized
The first thing to do when blogging a “Year in Review” at the turn of the year is to post it at the appropriate time. Tradition tells us that the
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
In October of 2006, news broke that Harvard was considering revamping it's core undergraduate curriculum. Now, over a year later, the final report and recommendations has been released.
Keith E. BuhlerTheology and Practice
See David Bradshaw's provocative, pleasing, and thoroughly insightful essay on the contrasting reception of Aristotle's concept of "the energy of God." "The term
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Huckabee's position on the government and the economy has brought some blistering criticism on him from numerous quarters, not least of whom is Larry Kudlow (you can see
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
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
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 […]