It is disorienting to realize one’s sympathies lie with an adulterer. How can Søren Kierkegaard make sense of it?
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Ver Erat Aeternum
Both Christian and pagan alike sense that spring is the original state of the world. Fall, on the other hand, comes from the Fall.
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 Eglington
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
Martin Luther and Tax: A Protestant Perspective on Redistributive Taxation
The redistributive grammar of Luther’s theology of the Lord’s Supper underlies his vision for poor relief and, thus, implicates redistributive taxation.
Inhabiting the Places of Promise: Martin Luther’s Teaching on the Three Institutions
Reflection on the institutions, on the shape of the divine promises to care for human life as revealed in Scripture, brings to light that to which our hearts cling in social and political life.
Foucault and the Hope of Resurrection
By his integration of literary, archaeological, and liturgical evidence, Stefan brings the doctrine of resurrection down from the realms of ideas and demonstrates the many ways in which it was applied and lived out in the early Church.
Against the Infinite Stimulus of Greed: Martin Bucer’s Reformation of Welfare
An economy can never be viewed as amoral, and it must be assessed on its ability, not to generate private profit, but to increase the number and flourishing of the “sons of God.”
When Roman Catholics and Protestants Read Each Other
Beyond Dordt and De Auxiliis examines the interdependence of these two traditions in the early modern period as they discussed and debated doctrines such as predestination and divine grace.