Contributor
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
Oliver O’Donovan’s Begotten or Made is 86 pages that will change your life. Readers of Mere-O know my ongoing fascination with O’Donovan, whom I regard as the best living theologian in the English-speaking world. After slowly digesting his trilogy on […]
Matthew Lee AndersonReading the Hymns
Quick: name the four most popular hymns in Anglicanism as measured by their inclusion in the 52 hymnbooks published around the world in the 19th century? Rock of Ages, Cleft
Matthew Lee Anderson
My friends at Patrol had one of their best days of content since I have been reading them. First, check out Alissa Harris’ affirmation of the apolitical nature of traditional evangelicals: However, when I look at my own parents and […]
Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging
Abraham Piper thinks so. Abraham is an astute observer of the Christian blogging community. And he has a hunch as to why: To assert that all men are brothers, that
Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism
If you trust the media, it’s all we do. And if you trust many of the younger evangelical set, they’ll immediately concur. But when you compare evangelicals to other branches of Christianity, the reality is surprising. Evangelicals, it turns out, […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
When I heard that Jennifer Knapp came out as a lesbian today, I shuddered. But not for why you think. No. I shuddered because the news meant another round of conversations about evangelicals and homosexuality. And that is a conversation which […]
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
Boing Boing has a helpful write-up of what, and how, infants in the womb know about the world. Here are two of the highlights: "They can tell the
Matthew Lee AndersonEducation
Debilitating allergies have practically destroyed my ability to do much of anything this weekend, so reading and writing were a bit more difficult than normal. But I realized that I
Matthew Lee Anderson
It’s impossible to talk about hymns for very long without running into that hymn making machine that was Charles Wesley. While he is most famous–and justly so–for his Christmas offering , he wrote some 6000 hymns. A Charge to Keep […]
Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice
Lisa Miller has a new book out on heaven, and while I haven't read it yet, the excerpt at Newsweek is intriguing. Miller highlights the paradox of believing
Matthew Lee Anderson
In this episode, Joe Carter and I argue about his book, How to Argue like Jesus, and how the Christian blogging community has fared in striving to do precisely that.
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Karl Barth, one of histories most prolific and insightful theologians, was interested--to put it mildly--in preserving the distinctiveness of God in Jesus Christ over and against other attempts
