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Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
I am going to be blogging through Oliver O’Donovan’s Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics next week. If anyone wishes to buy a copy and read through it while I post, let me know in the comments. […]
TexInternational Politics
The primary difference between Christian and Islamic theories of statehood lies in the relationship between temporal and spiritual duties and by extension, temporal and spiritual authorities. Christian political theory has
Matthew Lee Anderson
The new book “UnChristian” is getting a lot of play in the Christian ‘sphere right now, partly because of this article in Time highlighting the storyline of the book: Chrisitanity has an “image problem.” Young adults, ages 16-29, think badly […]
Matthew Lee AndersonDiscussion Leading
Improv theater, which encompasses comedy and dramatic theater, happens on a stage. That is, improve theater occurs within a defined space, and consequently within a defined time. As such, it
Matthew Lee AndersonSports
Last year, I experienced a level of playoff prediction failure previously unprecedented in my life. Of the seven series in the baseball playoffs, I predicted exactly one correctly. Curious to
Keith E. Buhler
There has been much talk lately amongst my philosophy friends about “analytic” vs “continental” philosophy. Analytic is characterized as desiring clarity of terms and exactitude of expression; continental as desiring fuzzy multi-dimensional terms and wholism of expression. They say that […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Fun is the new core value. So argues Matt LaBash in a Weekly Standard piece that is more dreary than insightful. LaBash thinks it's necessary, it seems, to
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
A few nights ago, I briefly registered my reticence to reject neo-conservative foreign policy in light of the progress we have made in Iraq. Joshua Muravchik has written an
Matthew Lee Anderson
A few months ago, Russell Moore penned an excellent piece in Touchstone on how Christians should begin to reconsider their position on cremation (a piece, I should point out, that spawned some excellent conversation here at Mere-O). As a practice, […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
Sally Bedell Smith published an excerpt of her forthcoming book on the Clinton White House in Vanity Fair. It is an interesting portrayal of how Hillary and Al’s respective campaigns clashed in the 2004 elections. Choice quotes: Bill and Hillary’s […]
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
Friend and fellow blogger Brant DeBow has tagged me in a meme about books that I have decided to take up. I won’t pass it along, but I thought some of you may be interested. Oh, and since the Bible […]
Tex
Islamic theology and political theory makes use of a distinction comparable to Augustine’s city of God and city of man. In Islam, this is the distinction between dar al-islam and dar al-harb. These two terms mean the house (or territory) […]