Category: Mere Fidelity
Mere Fidelity: On Marriage and Donated Gametes
This week’s conversation continues through our reading of Oliver O’Donovan’s Begotten or Made? with a conversation about the ways in which the possibility of gamete-donation by third parties to married couples has reshaped our understanding of marriage and its goods. We take...
NT Wright and his Reformed Critics
This week’s show follows up on the conversation about NT Wright and locates him among his Reformed critics. Who’s right, who’s wrong, and are there paths between that can learn from both? Various links from topics that came up during...
Mere Fidelity: The Transgender Question
This week’s conversation continues through our reading of Oliver O’Donovan’s Begotten or Made? with a discussion of the questions that have come to the fore in recent weeks about transgender people. We take the following excerpt from O’Donovan as our way in...
Mere Fidelity: Surprised by NT Wright
This week, we take up the subject of…N.T. Wright. Widely regarded as one of the most influential and best New Testament theologians of our day, we consider how best to read him and his impact on Christianity in the English...
Mere Fidelity: The End of Nature?
This week, we take up the nature of “nature.” We take the opening chapter to Oliver O’Donovan’s Begotten or Made? as our starting point, particularly this passage: When every activity is understood as making, then every situation into which we act...
Mere Fidelity: The Trinity and the Bible, with Fred Sanders
Three things worth noting: First, we are joined this week by our first guest! Fred Sanders is doubtlessly known to many people on this blog, given my constant flogging of his work. You can read my review of his excellent book...