Category: VI.I (Autumn, 2021)

Ad Fontes Fall 2021 issue

On Luke 24

E. J. Hutchinson — May 29, 2026

On Luke 24

FALL 2021 29 Ut tua pertingat, penetretque precatio caelum, Ardenti fiat speque fideque frequens. If you desire that your prayer may ascend up to heaven and pierce it, Light it…

Nationalism in Earliest Christianity

Andrew Koperski — November 9, 2021

Nationalism in Earliest Christianity

Do the earliest days of church history offer pushback to a defense of "Christian nationalism"?

Faithful Presence in the Midst of Pluralism: Three Tensions

Emily G. Wenneborg — November 9, 2021

Faithful Presence in the Midst of Pluralism: Three Tensions

How should we live faithfully as Christians, with our distinctive beliefs, practices, and values, in an increasingly pluralistic age?

Kierkegaard at the Rail: The Individual and the Eucharist in Kierkegaard’s Thought

Philip Jaseph — November 9, 2021

Kierkegaard at the Rail: The Individual and the Eucharist in Kierkegaard’s Thought

To the surprise of many, Kierkegaard wrote (and preached) about the sacraments often.

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Why the Lord’s Supper Is Essential to Restoring the Evangelical Church

Nathan Johnson — November 9, 2021

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Why the Lord’s Supper Is Essential to Restoring the Evangelical Church

The Lord's Supper is one of the most powerful cures for the ills of modern evangelicalism.

Survival and Resistance in Christian America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest: A Review

Brian J. Auten — November 9, 2021

Survival and Resistance in Christian America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest: A Review

A fine addition to an expanding list of historically grounded monographs on Christian Reconstruction.

“Light-Conveying Light Eternal”: Another Greek Prayer in Verse

E.J. Hutchinson — October 4, 2021

“Light-Conveying Light Eternal”: Another Greek Prayer in Verse

I had a lot of fun working on the Greek poem last week, so this week’s “Melancthon Monday” is once again…not Melanchthon. But, Christian humanist that he was, I don’t…

“O Cosmic King”: A Greek Christian Prayer in Verse

E.J. Hutchinson — September 27, 2021

“O Cosmic King”: A Greek Christian Prayer in Verse

For “Melanchthon Monday” this week I’m calling an audible; there is no Melanchthon at all. Sad, I know. But I have something for you that I hope will still prove…

“Then in Distress We Upraise” (3)

E.J. Hutchinson — August 30, 2021

“Then in Distress We Upraise” (3)

Time once again for #MelanchthonMonday! This is the third installment dealing with a petitionary poem by Joachim Camerarius and its Nachleben. In Part 1, we looked at the poem itself.…

“O, May the Church Ever Stand”: Melanchthon Prays in Poetry

E.J. Hutchinson — August 9, 2021

“O, May the Church Ever Stand”: Melanchthon Prays in Poetry

For today’s installment of “Melanchthon Mondays” has us moving from secular back to sacred matters. The following poem is one of several prayers in verse found among Melanchthon’s poetry. The…