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Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.
Matthew Lee Anderson
Blogging’s been a bit light for me lately. I’ve been fighting off a cold and a complete lack of content. However, last night’s trip to the Irvine Spectrum to see Kicking and Screaming provided a good opportunity to get back […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFilm Reviews/Hollywood
In the wake of the Passion, Hollywood began searching for material that would be marketable to the hordes of hitherto neglected "faith group." Kingdom of Heaven, which has
Matthew Lee AndersonHermeneuticsTheology and Practice
The next couple days I'm going to revist a couple recent posts where people have left insightful comments that I would like to fully respond to. I'
Matthew Lee AndersonEducationEpistemology
Mark at Pseudo-Polymath is dreaming about what he would do if he were king. His first item of business? Education. An excerpt: However beyond that (with one exception below) the only thing We would require of our primary education system […]
Matthew Lee AndersonBible
Recently, Mere-O featured a story in the Independent about previously unknown Greek texts being deciphered. It turns out the story may not be a story at all. From Hannibal at arstechnica: So as of right now, the rest of the […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy
First, read Andrew Sullivan's responses to the announcement of the new pope, here and here and here. Then read Bainbridge's response here. He politely says what
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
I was perusing Jeremy Pierce's site and I saw the plug for the latest Christian Carnival. I've not yet entered any of my posts in the
Matthew Lee AndersonBible
From the Independent: Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
This is the first official review of the (Lord willing!) many I will be doing for Mind and Media. Some books, no matter how badly written, still merit a reading on other grounds. Georgiana Preskar’s Seeds of Deception, which is […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophyScience
Many thanks to Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost for hosting the symposium. Ethics in our ostensibly pluralistic society have become increasingly dominated by a single voice: science. In the 2004
Matthew Lee AndersonembodimentAnthropology
Eastern Orthodox theologian David Hart on the Christian view of the soul: This is not to deny that, for Christian tradition, the soul transcends and survives the earthly life of the body. It is only to say that the soul, […]
Matthew Lee AndersonPro-LifePhilosophy
New Mere O friend John Schroeder of Blogotional is worried that I'm spending too much time in the ivory tower. Apparently, he thinks that I've spent
