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IX.II (Autumn, 2025)

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ROBIN HARRIS From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Fall 2025
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TIM JACOBS Theology as a Science: The Story of Aristotle’s Recovery and the Thomistic Revolution
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RYAN HURD A Thomist: Quid Sit?
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NATHAN JOHNSON Deus Est or Deus ex Machina?: How René Descartes Rescued Anselm’s Ontological Argument From Thomas’s Critique
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ROBIN HARRIS Reconstructing Moral Formation: The Traits and Habits that Allow Jane Austen’s Heroines to Build Virtue
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ZSANNA MáRIA BODOR Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry: A Review
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LOUIS MARKOS A Hermeneutic of Imagination: Unlocking Scripture’s Full Potential: A Review
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M. W. SINNETT The Market as God: A Review
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BEN EGERTON Exposure
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BETSY HOWARD Geriatric Pregnancy

Winter 2025

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ROBIN HARRIS From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Winter 2025
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FRED SANDERS Gathering the Doctrine of God: Nicaea’s Strategies of Deep Collation
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JOE MINICH Is the Creed Still Plausible?
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D. GLENN BUTNER JR. Commemorating Nicene Ethics and the Canons of Nicaea: Reflections after 1700 Years
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AARON JAMES There is Much to Believe: Singing the Nicene Creed
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DONALD FAIRBAIRN The Nicene Creed: A Scriptural, Historical, and Theological Commentary: A Review
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J. CALEB LITTLE Doctrine and Scripture in Early Christianity: A Review
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J. DARREN DUKE Mimro on the Synod of the Three Hundred and Eighteen Bishops That Gathered at Nicaea in the Days of the Constantine the Victorious King
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JAMES MATTHEW WILSON In Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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CYNTHIA HARRIS The Glorious Mystery

IX.I (Autumn, 2024)

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RHYS LAVERTY From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Fall 2024
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JOSEPH WHITENTON Reformed Catholic Pietism: An Evangelical Defence of Anglican Devotionalism
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NATHAN TARR Seminary, Deep Comedy, and the Christian Life
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ANDREW KOPERSKI Second James
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LOUIS MARKOS Cosmic Connections: A Review
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ERIC HUTCHINSON Melanchthon’s Commentary on Proverbs: A Review
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BETSY HOWARD Data
VIII.
EDDIE LAROW Shelter from the Storm: Bob Dylan and the Power of Narrative in a Storyless World
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BETSY HOWARD The Wife of Bath
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STEPHEN SILLS Mere Natural Law: A Review

VIII.IV (Summer, 2024)

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JOHN PERRYMAN Henry Adams at Mont Saint Michel
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JOHN PERRYMAN Sonnet at Eliot’s Tomb
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MARK HAMILTON Analyzing Prayer: A Review
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BRAD LITTLEJOHN Natural Law: A Short Companion – A Review
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ERIC HUTCHINSON Homer in Wittenberg: A Review
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NATHAN TARR “When Faith did Change the Scene”: Theological Interpretation of Color in John Cotton and George Herbert
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JEMIMAH WILSON Approaching IVF By the Back Door
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STEVEN WEDGEWORTH When Tradition Becomes Tragedy: Thomas Aquinas and the Immaculate Conception
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JEREMY LARSON Milton’s “Nativity Ode” and the Subversion of Magic
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RHYS LAVERTY From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Summer 2024

VIII.III (Spring, 2024)

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D.A. COOPER Twilight of the Gods
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SARAH REARDON Beneath the Cedar
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BRAD LITTLEJOHN Richard Hooker: Theological Method and Anglican Identity: A Review
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WILLIAM COLLEN The Karamazov Case: A Review
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C. STEPHEN EVANS The Sickness Unto Death: A Review
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DANIEL GOODMAN Kierkegaard, Repentance, and the True Self
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HAMISH STIRLING The Political Challenge of Jonah: Reflections on Niebuhr and Postliberalism
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JOHN WALNUT The Faith of Agatha Christie
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NATHAN TARR Retrieving Teleios-ity: Matthew 5:48 in the History of Interpretation
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RHYS LAVERTY From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Spring 2024

VIII.II (Winter, 2024)

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RHYS LAVERTY Stars
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DONALD T. WILLLIAMS On Re-Reading My Complete Frost
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BRAD LITTLEJOHN Social Conservatism for the Common Good: A Review
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ANDREW KOPERSKI “Son of Man” Vol. 1: A Review
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MICHAEL LYNCH Christology and Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century: A Review
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ONSI KAMEL The Soul of Education: W.E.B. DuBois’ Theory of the University
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IAN HUYETT Making Missing Biblical Art with Midjourney
VIII.
ERIC HUTCHINSON “Is Philosophy a Hindrance to Piety?” by Philip Melanchthon
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MATTHEW ROBERTS The Pastoral Value of the Reformed Doctrine of Concupiscence
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ANTHONY CIRILLA Wells and Buckets: A Defense of Christian Romanticism in Wordsworth and Coleridge

VIII.I (Autumn, 2023)

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TOLU OGUNLESI Meeting
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CASEY SPINKS At the Contented Cow
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RICHARD RANKIN RUSSELL Christian Heresy, James Joyce, and the Modernist Literary Imagination: Reinventing the Word: A Review
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J. C. SCHARL Staging Luther: Four Plays: A Review
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BRIAN J. AUTEN The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism: A Review
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PAUL S. JULIENNE The Truth of Being: Christianity, Science, and the Knowability of the Universe
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STEPHEN SCHULER W.H. Auden’s Prosaic Faith
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RANDALL PRICE The Reception History of the Thirty-Nine Articles in the Church of England: 1571-1662
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MILES SMITH IV No Cowboy Religion: Remapping Protestantism on the American Frontier
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RHYS LAVERTY From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Fall 2023

VII.IV (Summer, 2023)

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BENJAMIN PHILIPS A Grief Observed
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BRAD LITTLEJOHN Reformation, Resistance, and Reason of State: A Review
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MATTHEW COLVIN Divination and Philosophy in the Letters of Paul: A Review
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JOEL R. BEEKE Sermons on Job: A Review
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J.A. GRAY Behind the House
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RHYS LAVERTY From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Summer 2023
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DONALD WILLIAMS Education Begins At Home (Sonnet CXXVII)
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LAYNE HANCOCK Understanding Liberal Theology: An Interview with Gary Dorrien
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ADAM E. PETERSON Charles Hodge, Francis Grimké, and the Doctrine of Human Unity in the Critique of Race Prejudice
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AARON EDWARDS Why the Church Needs Kierkegaard

VII.III (Spring, 2023)

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JAMES MATTHEW WILSON The Return
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ERIC HUTCHINSON “On Palm Sunday” (Greek Anthology 1.52)
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BRAD LITTLEJOHN Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of the Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries
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TIM PERRY Mary in the Reformed Confessions
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STRIVENS ROBERT Roots of Anti-Confessionalism in Contemporary Evangelical Hermeneutics
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ONSI KAMEL On Lying
VII.
EPHRAIM RADNER The End of Interpretation: Reclaiming the Priority of Ecclesial Exegesis
VIII.
ERIC HUTCHINSON Folk Music: A Biography of Bob Dylan in Seven Songs and The Philosophy of Modern Song: A Review
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HUNEYCUTT JACOB “Perfect Submission; Perfect Delight:” Fanny Crosby, Spousal Piety, and Muscular Christianity
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RHYS LAVERTY From the Editor’s Desk – Spring 2023

VII.II (Winter, 2023)

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COLIN REDEMER A Man Near Magnificence
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DAN RATTELLE Besom
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MALCOLM GUITE A Tale Of Two Gardens
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MICHAEL RIGGINS Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne: A Review
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MATTHEW J. J. HOSKIN Leo the Great Among the Reformers
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BRAD LITTLEJOHN America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding: A Review
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JOHN WILSON Christian Poetry in American Since 1940: A Review
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D. GLENN BUTNER JR. Trinity and Catholicity: A Survey of Global Trinitarianism for Western Readers
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NATHAN JOHNSON Old Testament Sacraments? A Reformed Overview
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GERALD BRAY Celtic Christianity: Myth and Reality

VII.I (Autumn, 2022)

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PHILLIP J. DONNELLY Grammars of Grace: Dante’s Poetry of Sanctification
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ANDREW MESSMER And Now, Comedy: A Literary–Biblical Interpretation of Church History
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RICHARD RANKIN RUSSELL Shakeshafte & Other Plays: A Review
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J. C. SCHARL The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (Translated by Aaron Poochigian): A Review
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OLIVER BRAUNING Last Ride of the Rose Nose
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JAMES MATTHEW WILSON The Heart Would Make Itself Known
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COLIN REDEMER Eliot in Evangelical Americana
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TOM C. HUNLEY “And pain will be the thing that saves us”
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HANNAH HUBIN Votaries: The Blue Flower in Novalis, MacDonald, Lewis, and Robinson
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RHYS LAVERTY Ad Fontes Fall 2022 – From the Editor’s Desk

VI.IV (Summer, 2022)

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WANG YI Memories (One一)
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CAMERON BROOKS Early Morning Embers
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NICHOLAS C. DIDONATO Hidden & Revealed: The Doctrine of God in the Reformed & Eastern Orthodox Traditions: A Review
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JOE MINICH Philosophical Wonder and the Biography of Christian Theology
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DERRICK PETERSON Beyond “Being as Communion”
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RHYS LAVERTY A Theory of Everything? Christology as a Hope for Evangelical Metaphysical Revival
VII.
JOHANNES ZACHHUBER Finding Christian Philosophy: A Response To My Readers
VIII.
SCOTT CAIRNS Aporía [Απορία]
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ONSI KAMEL From the Editor’s Desk – Ad Fontes Summer 2022

VI.III (Spring, 2022)

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JACKSON GRAVITT In Darkness, Light: Francis of Assisi, Proto-Reformer
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JOHN EHRETT Postliberal Gods and Monsters
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MALCOLM GUITE Lockdown
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COLIN REDEMER My Brother’s Friends
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RHYS LAVERTY Resembled
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ERIC HUTCHINSON “The Light That Gives Us Heaven”: A Greek Epigram on Paul
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JOSHUA PATCH Gentle Discipline: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Christian Elites
VIII.
ANTHONY CIRILLA Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life: A Review
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BRUCE GORDON Calvin and the Resignification of the World: Creation, Incarnation, and the Problem of Political Theology in the 1559 Institutes: A Review
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JOSHUA HEAVIN Living In Union With Christ: Paul’s Gospel and Christian Moral Identity: A Review

VI.II (Winter, 2022)

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DERRICK PETERSON A Few Thoughts on Jason Josephson Storm’s Metamodernism: The Life and Death of the Christian Use of “Worldview”
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ONSI KAMEL Rediscovering Political Friendship: An Incredibly Poorly Timed Book
III.
ANDREW MESSMER The Fourth Way: The Promise of the Spanish Reformation
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ONSI KAMEL Metamodernism and Its Premodern Forebear
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ONSI KAMEL The Humility of the Eternal Son: Reformed Kenoticism and the Repair of Chalcedon: A Review
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ERIC HUTCHINSON A solis ortus cardine
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JOE MINICH After Metamodernism
VIII.
ONSI KAMEL From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes, Winter 2022
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ONSI KAMEL After Metamodern Progenitors and Progeny

VI.I (Autumn, 2021)

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ERIC HUTCHINSON “O, May the Church Ever Stand”: Melanchthon Prays in Poetry
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ERIC HUTCHINSON “Then in Distress We Upraise” (3)
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ERIC HUTCHINSON “O Cosmic King”: A Greek Christian Prayer in Verse
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ERIC HUTCHINSON “Light-Conveying Light Eternal”: Another Greek Prayer in Verse
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ONSI KAMEL Survival and Resistance in Christian America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest: A Review
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ONSI KAMEL Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Why the Lord’s Supper Is Essential to Restoring the Evangelical Church
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ONSI KAMEL Kierkegaard at the Rail: The Individual and the Eucharist in Kierkegaard’s Thought
VIII.
EMILY G. WENNEBORG Faithful Presence in the Midst of Pluralism: Three Tensions
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ANDREW KOPERSKI Nationalism in Earliest Christianity
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E. J. HUTCHINSON On Luke 24

V.IV

V.IV

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ERIC HUTCHINSON Melanchthon’s Psalm 111
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ERIC HUTCHINSON Homer, God’s Poet
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MICHAEL RIGGINS The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience: A Review
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JAMES R. WOOD Calvin’s Complex Ecumenism
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BRAD LITTLEJOHN Imagining a People: An Essay on the Possibility of Political Representation
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CLIFFORD.HUMPHREY Get a Room! On Our Detrimental Misreading of C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity
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BRAD LITTLEJOHN A Letter Regarding War, April 15, 1818
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E. J. HUTCHINSON On the Decalogue

V.III

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BRAD LITTLEJOHN On the State of the Nation (Part 1)

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E. J. HUTCHINSON Editor’s Reflection (Vol. 5, Issue 2)

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MOSES BRATRUD “ENLIGHTEN My Mind in the Knowledge of Christ”: Evangelicalism and Enlightenment at the Cambuslang Revival, 1742

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BRAD LITTLEJOHN Against the Infinite Stimulus of Greed: Martin Bucer’s Reformation of Welfare

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MILES SMITH IV The Neglected Craft: Prudence in Reformed Political Thought

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ERIC HUTCHINSON “Nursing Fathers”: The Magistrate and the Moral Law

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JAKE MEADOR Why We Need the Common Good

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DAVID HAINES Classical Theism in the Magisterial Reformers David Haines

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ONSI KAMEL James Wilson and the Common Sense Theory of the Common Law

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JAMES DUGUID Divine Simplicity and the Old Testament

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MILES SMITH IV An Echo of Grace: Plato’s Doctrine of Gifts

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ETHAN FOSTER James Wilson and the Natural Law Case for Individual Sovereignty Ethan Foster Introduction1

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JOE MINICH Debating the Simple God

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STEPHEN WOLFE Samuel Willard: Life

II.XI

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MILES SMITH IV The Bishops are blind. It is up to us to open their eyes.

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II.X

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MILES SMITH IV Why Protestant Christianity Needs a Theology of Natural Law

II.IX

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ONSI KAMEL A Call for a Free Council

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STEVEN WEDGEWORTH Martin Luther’s Farewell to Arms: The Two Kingdoms and the Rejection of Crusading

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CORY BROCK Between Demonization and Dependence: Bavinck’s Appropriations of Schleiermacher

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ERIC HUTCHINSON Calvin’s Luther: Unity and Continuity in Protestantism

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ERIC HUTCHINSON Reason Diabolical, Reason Divine: Melanchthon on Philosophy, Humanism and Scripture

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ONSI KAMEL The Gospel Expressed: Luther’s Teaching on Alien Righteousness as Divine Gift

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BLAKE ADAMS The Early Christian Appropriation of Pagan Piety

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MYLES WERNTZ Jesus and Pacifism: A Correspondence (Pt. III)

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JAKE MEADOR Protestant Ecclesiology Amidst Contemporary Political Theologies

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I.IX

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ONSI KAMEL Natural Theology and Protestant Orthodoxy

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ANDREW FULFORD From “Jesus and Pacifism”: The Teachings of Christ (Part 4)

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BRAD LITTLEJOHN Simul Justus Et Peccator: the Genius and Tensions of Reformation Ecclesiology W. Bradford Littlejohn the Genius of Luther’s

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MILES SMITH IV “Covenant” and Polity in the Thought of the Early Reformers

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ONSI KAMEL Pragmatism and Principle: John Calvin and Female Government

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STEVEN WEDGEWORTH Finding Zion: the Church in the Old Testament

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ONSI KAMEL How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria (and Mary, and Mary, and Elizabeth)?

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SIMON KENNEDY Johannes Althusius, Neighbor Love, and the Origins of Society

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JOSEPH MINICH An Introduction to the Journal and This Series Ad Fontes: the Church Question in a Disoriented Age Joseph Minich an Introduction

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