Peter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, and an adjunct Senior Fellow at New St. Andrews College. He is author, most recently, of Gratitude: An Intellectual History (Baylor).
Every church has tradition. It's most dangerous when unacknowledged. Continue Reading »
Why the marriage pledge makes sense. Continue Reading »
When the church is in the wilderness, fresh water is hard to find. Continue Reading »
1688 established a new British state, a liberal one. Also an interventionist one. Continue Reading »
An ascetic politics that renounces political interest and is skeptical of political judgment, but is passionate for political advocacy. Continue Reading »
Last Sunday, Western Christians celebrated Easter, and in a few days Eastern churches will observe Pascha. Over the course of eight days, most of the world’s two billion Christians will have sung of Jesus’s resurrection, listened again as the glad apostles see their Lord, and heard bold talk of new life and new creation. Continue Reading »
Early on, Puritanism was denounced as too Jewish. Later, Puritans found a way to turn the accusation against their opponents. Continue Reading »
Sacramentum was originally a military and imperial term. It still is. Continue Reading »
The most fruitful responses to nominalism didn't attempt to retreat to a time before nominalism, but to move beyond nominalism. Continue Reading »
Gender Arianism clarified. Continue Reading »
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