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).
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State control of religion is a product of the Reformation, and the paradoxical product is privatization and a de-socialization of Christianity. Continue Reading »
Paul’s first statement of justification (Acts 13) holds some surprises. Continue Reading »
Unity is a goal of Christian mission, as well as a necessary, and necessarily visible means. Continue Reading »
Theology in the modern world is not always a dispute about truth. It’s often an effort to bolster tribal loyalties. Continue Reading »
Charles Taylor, like many people, gets Calvin wrong. Continue Reading »
Presbyterian theologian John Burgess spends a year in Russia among the exotic Orthodox, and gets a taste for “the holy.” Continue Reading »
Protestant scholastics were confessing Protestants, but they aimed at catholicity. Continue Reading »
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