Genealogies of modernity often blame Protesantism. But are they right?
Retrieving John Calvin on Job
Introducing the first modern English translation of the entirety of Calvin’s sermons on Job.
Miasma of the Ordinary? Rebuking the Devil in Your Soup
Did ancient Christians feel guilty about possible implication in unethically sourced food?
Undoing Misenchantment: Calvin, Demons, and Creation
Did Calvin really banish spirits and demons and end up disenchanting creation?
On Education: A Review
Abraham Kuyper’s writings on education reveal his vision, successes, and compromises
Plundering the Romans: Irenaeus, History, and Economic Presuppositions
Tidy modern narratives about the economic views of past Christians rarely fit the historical data
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?
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.
In Darkness, Light: Francis of Assisi, Proto-Reformer
How did Francis of Assissi anticipate, yet differ from, the Protestant Reformers?
Bacchanalomania
A new book vastly overstates parallels between the Eucharist and the Dionysus cult