Matthew Lee Anderson

The virtue of Gerald McDermott’s The Great Theologians is that it condenses the central contributions of eleven of history’s most influential Christian thinkers into a readable and accesible format.And McDermott makes this seem easy.The Great Theologians introduces a rather . . . . Continue Reading »

The important question, as Abraham Piper points out , is what we’re going to watch now that Lost has left our lives for good. I liked Lost . A lot. I have to say that and repeat it so the Losties don’t kill me for what comes next: it wasn’t the best show on television the past three . . . . Continue Reading »

Gene Fant dug up this little gem from Timothy Morton in the latest Proceedings of the Modern Language Association : It’s not just that rabbits are rabbits in name only; it’s that whether or not we have words for them, rabbits are deconstructive all the way down—signifying and display . . . . Continue Reading »

Like us over at Mere Orthodoxy, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen likes C.S. Lewis.As an undergrad, she was drawn to his vision of a Christianity, which fuses intellectual robustness with piety and a lively imagination.  She found in him a subtle challenge to the dominant regime of physicalism, a . . . . Continue Reading »

If you ask noted pacifist John Howard Yoder , the answer is unequivocally “yes.”  Writes Yoder: The answer of the pre-Constantinian church was negative; the Christian as an agent of God for reconciliation has other things to do than to be in police service . . . . Christians saw . . . . Continue Reading »

In reflecting on the relationship between story and the rules of the game,  Brian Phillips writes : What that means is that, if we care about the sport as a story, we have to hope that the people in charge of running it do their jobs  just badly enough to ensure that the  Hand of God . . . . Continue Reading »

If you asked St. Augustine why he believed in an immortal soul, I suspect he’d look at you quizzically, raise an eyebrow, and utter a dismissive, “Because St. Paul did!” Of course, there are large groups of Christians who might accept the rationale for Augustine’s answer while . . . . Continue Reading »

When I heard that Jennifer Knapp came out as a lesbian yesterday, I shuddered.But not for why you think.No.  I shuddered because the news meant another round of conversations about evangelicals and homosexuality.  And that is a conversation which is fraught with danger.There will be the . . . . Continue Reading »

As Joe mentioned on Monday , Lisa Miller has a new book out on heaven , and while I haven’t read it yet, the excerpt at Newsweek is intriguing. Miller highlights the paradox of believing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which she claims “has strained the credulity of even the most . . . . Continue Reading »

Two of our writers here at Evangel have been up to no good of late.  And you should know about it.First, I subject our overlord Joe Carter (who is ultimately to blame for bringing together this rag-tag band of miscreants) to rigorous examination regarding his book, How to Argue like . . . . Continue Reading »