Reclaiming Paradox
by Hans BoersmaModern understandings of creation are Manichaean in propensity. Continue Reading »
Justify the Ways of Eve
by Veronica ClarkeA review of Tom Dulack’s Paradise Lost, playing now in New York. Continue Reading »
The Christian Way
by Evangelicals and Catholics TogetherChristians freely obey Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God. “Come,” he beckons, “follow me.” Being a Christian requires more than intellectual or moral agreement with Christian teachings. Christ asks for our love and loyalty. Following him requires conversion, which leads to membership in . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Misguided War on Legalism
by Joshua GibbsGod governs man, but man is made in God’s image and so in tribute to God’s rule, man must make rules for his own person. Continue Reading »
Mustard Seeds
by R. R. RenoThe first chapter of Genesis is a grand liturgy of creation. The second chapter describes with existential immediacy the universal human longing for fulfillment. Subsequent chapters are given over to disaster and destruction. The primordial man and woman set human history on its path toward . . . . Continue Reading »
Hans Friedrich Grohs: From Bereavement to Benediction
by Timothy GeorgeHe was born four years after Kaiser Wilhelm II ascended the German imperial throne; he died nearly a century later, in the same decade that witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. He was drafted as a soldier in both world wars and experienced firsthand the Nazi reign of terror in between. Few artists have lived so fully, or recorded so faithfully, such a vast sweep of human history. Continue Reading »
Edenic Recollections
by Russell E. SaltzmanMy oldest son once spent a summer on staff at a Scout reservation. Underneath his tent platform lived a family of skunks. They would amble by, mama and her kits (baby skunks are kits, as baby goats are kids), with nary a hint of animosity and rarely a spark of curiosity. Who knows how many summers . . . . Continue Reading »
Authority, Citizenship, and Public Justice
by David T. KoyzisIt is not only kings and princes who bear political office. As those created in God’s image, we too bear political authority. Continue Reading »
Advent of Unity
by Peter J. LeithartJohn famously begins his Gospel with a piece of theology: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Matthew starts with a genealogy. John celebrates Advent with a hymn, Matthew with a list. For John, Jesus is the Word of creation in human flesh. For Matthew, he is a name. Continue Reading »
Girard v. Genesis
by Peter J. LeithartOver many decades and in voluminous writings, René Girard has elaborated a theory of sacrifice, scapegoating, and violence that purports to unveil things hidden from the foundations of the world. He has become a guru, not least to Christian theologians eager to formulate non-violent versions of . . . . Continue Reading »
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