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Matthew Lee Anderson

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.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

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 AndersonReading the Hymns

Reading the Hymns: For the Beauty of the Earth

Reading the Hymns: For the Beauty of the Earth

Matthew Lee Anderson

Theology amidst the Disciplines - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Milliner has typically astute thoughts on the relationship–it’s a stormy one, where it exists at all–between beauty and the theology of Karl Barth.  In the comments (which are all worth reading), he writes: But I found that Barthian concerns did […]

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The April Recap

The April Recap

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Sword Between the Sexes - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Like us here at Mere-O, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen likes C.S. Lewis. As an undergrad, she was drawn to his vision of a Christianity, which fuses intellectual robustness with piety and a lively imagination.  She found in him a subtle […]

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The Expansiveness of Time - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Tomorrow, my experience of time will dramatically change. Over the past six months, I have been working for an international corporation in what amounted to a digital stockroom.  It was the sort of job that would turn the most hardened […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Reading the Hymns: Jesus Paid it All - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

If there’s a hymn that encapsulates the impulse and theology behind the evangelical revivals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, “Jesus Paid it All” is it. But the “Jesus Paid it All” that was brought to prominence by […]

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A Weekend of Edification: Notes from Around the Web

A Weekend of Edification: Notes from Around the Web

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God Gives the Superfluities

God Gives the Superfluities

Matthew Lee Anderson

A Promissory Note - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

These are the books that I have reviews of forthcoming.  Now you know. Are there any books that you’d like me to add to the list?

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McLaren's 'New Christianity' and its Greco-Roman Narrative - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I haven’t yet read McLaren’s latest, mostly because of financial restrictions.  But I’ve been keeping one eye on the critiques, if only to see where the perceived weaknesses are if I ever make it around to it. And  Fuller New […]

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On Inane American Immigration Practices

On Inane American Immigration Practices

Matthew Lee Anderson

Too Awesome Not to Share - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

From the video department here at Mere-O comes this offering, which is predicated on the simple premise of modernity:  we will, because we can. Of course, we never see him come down.  And that is the rub. Second, what is […]