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).
Beginning in August, the Theopolis Institute will offer a series of Bible survey courses. Continue Reading »
Evangelicals are debating the historicity of Adam, but they are too timid. It is time to reject fundamentalist distortions of the Abrahamic narrative just as decisively as we have abandoned literalistic readings of Genesis 1–3. Clinging to discredited biblical accounts of Abraham as if these . . . . Continue Reading »
Registration is now open for Trinity Term Theopolis course on Mission to the City. Continue Reading »
Summer break. Continue Reading »
Water is necessary for life, but so is dryness. Humans aren't fish. Continue Reading »
Rulers mimic the divine ruler. Continue Reading »
Secularization theories assume a European rather than American context, which is why they work for Europe and not America. Continue Reading »
America is a machine for making Protestants out of everyone—Christian or not. Continue Reading »
What does it mean to say Jesus is “King of kings and Lord of lords”? Continue Reading »
God promises to be father, and to make us sons and daughters. Continue Reading »
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