Doctor’s Orders: Read the Bible When You’re Blue
by Mark BauerleinCurt Thompson joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Deepest Place. Continue Reading »
A Visit to Fr. Zinon
by John P. BurgessDown a deeply rutted dirt road, far from Russia’s centers of power and wealth, sits a small compound behind twelve-foot-high brick walls. People in the nearest village, several miles away, have heard rumors that an odd man lives there, a monk perhaps. But no one has seen him or knows anything . . . . Continue Reading »
Politics of Eden
by Mark BauerleinNils A. Haug joins the podcast to discuss his book Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden. Continue Reading »
God Is Not Prissy
by Peter J. LeithartWe need to remember God is Immanuel, God-with-us. Continue Reading »
Seriously, God Is Love
by Peter J. LeithartSergius Bulgakov has long been hailed by Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike as a titan of twentieth-century theology. He wrote on everything. After a youthful flirtation with Marx, he published Philosophy of Economy (1912), an anti-Marxist work of social theory. In The Tragedy of . . . . Continue Reading »
What Science Is and Isn’t
by Peter J. LeithartScience doesn’t provide a comprehensive, indisputable account of reality. That doesn’t make it useless, but it does mean we’ll misuse science so long as we misconstrue what it is and isn’t. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousMy deep thanks to Brad East for his piece on doing theology in a divided church (“Theology in Division,” April 2023). The topic is centrally important and rarely taken seriously, as if its obviousness renders the challenge uninteresting. East’s larger points about aiming at a catholic theology . . . . Continue Reading »
The Continuing Relevance of the Donatist Controversy
by Gilbert MeilaenderPerhaps only a few potential readers are interested enough in an essay titled “The Continuing Relevance of the Donatist Controversy” to begin reading it immediately (or ever). Others may be pleased to learn that only gradually will we make our way to thinking about the controversy that troubled . . . . Continue Reading »
Calvinism 2.0
by James R. WoodThe Neo-Calvinist movement has much to offer contemporary theology. But if its contributions are going to last, we need to enter a period of “consolidation.” Continue Reading »
Reno Contra Mundum
by Markus BockmuehlThis journal’s editor has given us a book that is at once timely and important and that invites Christian biblical studies and theology to reengage each other in a task of uncommon urgency. For me as a biblical scholar, it is an honor to be invited to that dialogue in these pages. Biblical . . . . Continue Reading »
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