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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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The Incarnation and Male/Female Mutuality

One of the distinctive aspects of the Theology of the Body is its beautiful expression of the mutual relations of men and women, a mutuality that originates in and is

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Notes from around the Web

It’s been a busy week for me, and I haven’t gotten a chance to do justice to many of the interesting content I’ve come across.  So for your pleasure, here’s some thoughts worthy of your attention: Dietrich Bonhoeffer takes on […]

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A Broader Exceptionalism: Responding to Ponnuru and Lowry

Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry have a response to their critics up at National Review, and they saw fit to include me in their targets.  They write: Our essay attracted some criticism from the right as well. Matthew Lee Anderson faults […]

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Worship: The Appropriate Response to Concupiscence

Francis Watson's Agape, Eros, Gender is a provocative treatment of Paul's views of sexuality and gender. Watson's analysis is provocative, but uneven.  He is

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Practices and the New Ecclesiology

Focusing on the practices of the church is all the rage these days.  Professor Smith’s excellent and thought provoking book is only the latest volley in a long list of theologians attempting to reorient the center of Christianity away from […]

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Soils for the Seeds of Doctrine: Chesterton's Orthodoxy as the Antidote to Modernity

Chesterton's Orthodoxy tills the soil for the seeds of doctrine. His imaginative first principles are an antidote to modernity.

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The Possibility of a "Third Thing" Between Society and Biology

David Schaengold has a fascinating post up over at Ordinary Gentlemen (one of the most interesting spots on the internets) that examines the steps our social views on homosexuality have undergone.  He writes: This response further solidifies the reality of an […]

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One more on Protestant Aesthetics

The substance of Dyrness’ essay highlights the Protestant emphasis on the brokenness of the world, and on the crucifixion as the only remedy for that brokenness.  But Dyrness points out that the emphasis on Jesus’ crucifixion isn’t on the event […]

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Art is Eschatology

Whether a Protestant aesthetics is possible remains, unfortunately, a question which Protestants must answer. In “Dante, Bunyan, and a Case for Protestant Aesthetics,” William Dyrness  argues that not only do Protestants have an aesthetics, but have one that is shaped […]

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A Brief Update Regarding Technical Problems

Friends, Just a quick note this evening.  Some of the our most recent posts have disappeared through no fault of the authors.  Our site has been hacked, and we are

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Agrarianism: The Inevitable End of Technocracy? (Updated/Bumped)

At The New Ledger, Francis Cianfrocca analyzes the shifts currently happening in information technology and their potential ramifications on the rest of our lives.  He writes: What happens in the

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Stephen Colbert and Bart Ehrman

Ehrman of revisionist fame, of course.  And Colbert of late-night comedy show cynicism fame. Best line?  "What's the son of a duck?  It's a