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“All the Men and Women Merely Players”: An Epigram of Palladas
A student once called me "vaguely pagan," which I did NOT appreciate. However. While I've shared...
“The Devil Is Not Dead”: Luther on the Necessity of Galatians (Updated)
Last time, we looked at a comment Luther makes in his preface to the 1535 Galatians commentary....
Still Reclaiming Calvin’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper
20 years on from his landmark book on Calvin’s view of the supper, Keith Mathison asks: has it been reclaimed?
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From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Spring 2022
How should the Church live when worlds end?
Living In Union With Christ: Paul’s Gospel and Christian Moral Identity: A Review
In ethics as in any other area, it is not we who live, but Christ who lives in us.
Calvin and the Resignification of the World: Creation, Incarnation, and the Problem of Political Theology in the 1559 Institutes: A Review
Calvin's theology exists not in the abstract, but in material, contextual and embodied forms that ebb and flow.
Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life: A Review
A thorough exploration of Jordan Peterson's fascinating and frustrating relationship with Christianity.
Gentle Discipline: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Christian Elites
Spenser's poem presents a distinctly Protestant vision for Christian elites in church and society.
“The Light That Gives Us Heaven”: A Greek Epigram on Paul
A translation of a Greek epigram by E. J. Hutchinson
“The Decline of the Novel” by Joseph Bottum: A Review
What does the decline of the novel have to do with Protestantism?
Common Prayer: An Interview
An interview with the editors of the new 1662 Book of Common Prayer: International Edition
A Man for Our Time: A Review of “Bavinck: A Critical Biography” by James Eglinton
At last, a worthy biography of the first confessional Reformed theologian to have truly grappled with modernity.
The Christian Right (and Wrong)
"Protestants and American Conservatism" provides useful history, but a more charitable and accurate assessment is needed to develop a contemporary Protestant political theology