Peter J. Leithart

Barth points out that God is Lord of the city of man as welll as the city of God, and that God loves and cares for all that He has made. What then does election mean? Barth answers, “He is favorably disposed to the pure only in order that they may be at His disposal for service to the . . . . Continue Reading »

A 2010 dissertation by David C. Fink traces the “confessionalization” of the Protestant doctrine of justification. Fink summarizes his work in this abstract: “This dissertation lays the groundwork for a reevaluation of early Protestant understandings of salvation in the sixteenth . . . . Continue Reading »

Creation science advocate Henry Morris has some interesting Trinitarian speculations at the beginning of his The Biblical Basis for Modern Science . Reflecting on Romans 1, he insists that what is revealed in creation is not just “deity” but specifically the “godhead,” which . . . . Continue Reading »

David Brooks writes in a recent New Yorker piece: “Fetuses who have been read ‘The Cat in the Hat’ while in the womb suck rhythmically when they hear it again after birth, because they recognize the rhythm of the poetry.” . . . . Continue Reading »

BB Warfield points out that the church’s confession of the Trinity is embedded in the church’s conviction that God Himself had appeared as Jesus: “It was in the coming of the Son of God in the likeness of sinful flesh to offer Himself a sacrifice for sin; and in the coming of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Bavinck again on the Spirit’s role in creation: “At the beginning that Spirit moved upon the face of the waters (Gen. 1:2), and He remains active in all that was created.” He expands the point this way: “By that Spirit God garnishes the heavens (Job 26:13), renews the face . . . . Continue Reading »

Bavinck, pre-channeling Jenson: “What the Christian goes on to confess about that God is not summarized by him in a number of abstract terms, but is described, rather, as a series of deeds done by God in the past, in the present, and to be done in the future. It is the deeds, the miracles, of . . . . Continue Reading »

In a recent piece in The New Yorker , Malcolm Gladwell questioned whether Twitter and similar technologies will have the political efects that many presume. Now Evgeny Morozov raises the same question in a book-length treatment ( The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom ). According to . . . . Continue Reading »

In an essay on the philosophical significance of modern science, Heidegger insists that Descartes did not “subjectivize” knowledge or metaphysics with his cogito . Much more the opposite, since Descartes was guided, Heidegger says, by the prior conviction that mathematics provided both . . . . Continue Reading »

Foucault, from Discipline and Punish : “The more on possesses power or privilege [in the premodern world], the more one is marked as an individual, by rituals, written accounts or visual reproductions. The ‘name’ and the genealogy that situate one within a kinship group, the . . . . Continue Reading »