David Koyzis is the author of the award-winning Political Visions and Illusions (2003), which recently came out in a Brazilian edition, Visões e Ilusões Politicas, and of We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and the Image of God (2014).
A properly functioning moral conscience is formed by a variety of authoritative influences, including parental upbringing, teachers, churches, workplaces, and peers. Continue Reading »
How would the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn have responded to the crisis in Crimea? Continue Reading »
An upcoming Scottish referendum forces us to think beyond the United Kingdom and into Canada, Crimea, and elsewhere. Continue Reading »
If love is not reducible to mere emotion, there is nevertheless a substantial emotional component to it. Continue Reading »
At the risk of sounding cantankerous, I will take the occasion to point out that a twenty-three-year-old is an adult. Continue Reading »
If the Bible has a vantage point, it is not simply that of the oppressed, as if this were a readily identifiable class of persons. Continue Reading »
The outbreak of war in 1914 unleashed a decades-long chain reaction that left millions uprooted and exiled. My own presence in this world would not have come about were it not for these events. Continue Reading »
Although the biblical Psalms are a product of the old covenant, for centuries the Christian Church has sought and found Jesus Christ in its historic song book. A number of Psalms have been designated messianic in character, including Psalms 2, 22, 30, 69, 72, 110, and 118. This is due either to . . . . Continue Reading »
Baptism marks the Christian’s entry into the covenant community. At baptism the recipient’s sponsors make promises on the candidate’s behalf, as does the community witnessing the baptism. Baptism itself does not save in an ultimate sense, but it is a proximate means of grace which . . . . Continue Reading »
In Platos Republic , Socrates conversation with his friends over the nature of justice takes a startling turn when Thrasymachus drops a bombshell. It is more profitable, he argues, for people to be unjust than just, if they can manage to get away with it without incurring a bad . . . . Continue Reading »
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