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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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News and Notes

The reviews continue to roll in for The New Media Frontier. Trevin Wax (who is really, really smart) had this to say in his Amazon review:  "The New Media

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The Sustained Division: Calvin on the Perpetual Humanity of Man

One of the more perplexing questions of Christian theology is how, if at all, man is made righteous by the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.  Perhaps more than any other issue, this question reveals the fault lines between […]

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Taming the New Media Frontier

Reviews of the New Media Frontier are trickling in at a slow pace.  The countless hordes of readers (currently #232,477 on Amazon.com!) are doubtlessly grappling with the profundity contained therein.  Especially in that oh-so-provocative section critiquing new media. While I […]

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Take Root in the Heart: Calvin on the Knowledge of God

Questions about the knowledge of God too quickly often turn very quickly toward the issue of sources-where does our knowledge of God come from? John Calvin, whom I have

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Human Exceptionalism, John Calvin, and the Impulse to Worship

Modern evolutionary theory has brought the question of human exceptionalism back into our consciousness.  From a scientific standpoint, researchers have discovered startling similarities between humans and animals (though the dissimilarities

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To Serve, and Not to Lord Over Us: Calvin on the Tradition of the Church

From a sociological standpoint, it is a stretch to say that most evangelicals have any relationship to ecclesiastical traditions that extend beyond the past fifty years at all.  Among those

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Invading the Amazon

If you search by "author" for "Matthew Lee Anderson" on Amazon.com, two entries come up: One of them is a book on Eighteenth Century Europe

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Precisely Right: Douthat on Sarah Palin

I’ve been wondering what to say about this whole Sarah Palin hubub.  Ross Douthat’s (humorous) take suffices: Judging by my email, a number of readers seem to be under the impression that what we’ve been witnessing in the media and […]

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The Art of Online Conversation

I had the pleasure of discussing the way internet technologies are shaping Christendom with the prolific John Mark Reynolds yesterday. Marcus Goodyear and Katherine Britton were also on the call. The podcast is up at ScriptoriumDaily. Once again, it was […]

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McCain and Obama on Saddleback's Stage (updated)

I'll be watching the Saddleback Civil Forum closely tonight along with many other folks. It is the first time since the primaries ended that Barack Obama and John

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Q&A with Andrew Jones

I was honored to be a part of a Q&A session with the pre-eminent emerging church blogger Andrew Jones. Jones is extremely thoughtful, especially on issues pertaining

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Against Values Voters: Reservations about Social Conservatives' New Name

In September of 2006, Family Research Council Action hosted the first “Values Voter Summit.”  In 2007, it had 2500 attendees and launched Mike Huckabee’s campaign into the national spotlight.  It was influential enough to momentarily quell talk of the declining […]