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God and the Body at Newsweek

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

Cate MacDonaldTheology and Practice

On Lent and Hard Times: Death to Life

I taught the Palm Sunday lesson to all the preschool-aged children at my church last Sunday. It was difficult for me to speak truly about the entrance of Jesus

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Questioning the Body: A Plea for Help

Writing a book is a community project. It's been almost 10 weeks since I announced that I had signed the contract. During that time I've read

Jeremy MannTheology and PracticeFormation

Can a Man Be Profitable to God?

God does not need us. He does not depend on our praise, or our holiness, or our service. These gifts do not gain him anything. They are not his source

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Socrates, Remy, and the Solitary Contemplation of Beauty

In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates is shown to be very strange. In an episode related by Alcibiades, Socrates is said to have stood all day and night in an army

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Thomas Says: A Recap on Killing

This is the last post in the Thomas Says series on killing. I want to summarize some points Thomas makes in this question of the Summa. First, let’s note

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Thomas Says: What Happens if, Whoops, I Killed You?

This is the second-to-last post summarizing the position on killing laid out by Thomas Aquinas in the Summa. In the concluding post I will pull together a number

Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and Practice

Playing the (a)Theological Mystery Card

Every theologian, wanna-be theologian, a-theologian, and otherwise thinking person has one. Discuss a point of theology long enough, and you'll inevitably see it played.  Call it

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Thomas Says: Why You Can (And Should) Kill in Self-Defense, Part 2

In this post, I want to conclude my summary and discussion of Thomas’s reasoning about killing in self-defense by examining the objections to his position that he considers

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Truth Comes in A Body: Andy Crouch on the Incarnation

Andy Crouch is really smart.  He's written one of the most important books on evangelicals relationship to culture in the last 20 years.  And he's always

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Bodies, Souls, and the Bible: The Frequency Test

If Peter Leithart's latest writings are any indication, he's working on an essay or a book on the meaning of embodiment.  Which would be fantastic.  The

Matthew Lee AndersonAnthropologyembodimentTheology and Practice

Industrial Sex: Freeing the Body from Consequences

Wendell Berry's essay "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine" is a gem. I won't recap the whole argument, but along the way he provides