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Matthew Lee AndersonBibleTheology and PracticeFormation
In my previous post on the Gospel of John, I suggested that John speaks to us through his Gospel as Jesus does to the people in the Gospel. "Greater
Matthew Lee AndersonBibleFormation
I was planning on being finished with these reflections on John, but these excellent questions from Andrew have inspired me to write one more post. If anything is clear in the Gospel of John, the thought that Jesus is both […]
Matthew Lee AndersonHermeneuticsEvangelicalism
While most evangelicals have never heard of Louis Gaussen, his Theopneustia lurked in the backdrop of evangelical discussions of inspiration for the better part of a century. (For the argument
Matthew Lee AndersonEpistemologyFormation
In the context of a discussion about the method in which God develops a conversation relationship with us - by forming our character - and our appropriate response, Dallas Willard writes of
Matthew Lee Anderson
The handsome, extraordinarily brilliant, and always punchy Nobody (who has been happily blogging at Any Eventuality for some time now) sent in this juicy piece of poetry from Shakespeare’s Sonnet number 129. (I should also point out that Nobody is almost a […]
Matthew Lee AndersonUncategorized
Blogging to have you take them away, that is, and give me money. I'm unemployed, and so spending my times organizing my life and discarding books that I
Matthew Lee Anderson
The Enigma Variations is one of the most enjoyable set of variations that classical music can boast. What makes them particularly interesting is that Elgar wrote a variation for each of his friends, making the reconstruction of their personalities a […]
Matthew Lee AndersonChurchEvangelicalismTheology and Practice
In the first essay, I attempted to summarize John Webster's essay where he locates evangelical ecclesiology under the perfection of God. His moves, of course, raise questions about
Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics
It was an honor and a privilege to listen to former House Majority leader Tom DeLay opine on all things political. Delay was candid in his assessment of the sucesses and failures of the Republican party the last few years, […]
TexEconomics and Business
Joe Kauffman, spokesman for the Terror-Free Oil Initiative, has decided to take a popular water cooler issue head-on by announcing the grand opening of the world's
Matthew Lee AndersonLiterature
I wrote the following article for a Christmas newsletter for homeschool students participating in Torrey Academy, the program I teach in. Though it was written with the yuletide season in
Matthew Lee AndersonChurchEvangelicalismTheology and Practice
As discussions about the nature of evangelicalism have been prevalent around Mere Orthodoxy in the last few years (see here, here, and here), I turned to The Community of the