Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: A few weeks ago, Thabiti contributed to our ongoing discussion of the presidential election and race relations with this post. I responded briefly here, and promised to say more about it later on. It is now later on, and so here I am. Productive Discussions: Thabiti said that he and I manage to have …
If I might, I would like to begin with a set of bundled quotations. The first is from The Pilgrim’s Progress, the second from John Buchan’s trilogy of books, The 39 Steps, Mr. Standfast, and Greenmantle, and the third from a few places in Scripture. Please bear with me for just a moment. First, John …
“Athanasius had to stand contra mundum, and it is he who is the representative man from that era and not the whole world he had to contend against” (Writers to Read, p. 21).
“Loving something while being unwilling to fight for it would be better categorized as lust” (Writers to Read, p. 20).
Introduction: Rachel Held Evans has recently argued that a vote for Hillary Clinton is not inconsistent with a pro-life ethic. There are any number of confusions involved in how she presents the case, but I am going to try to limit myself to addressing just three of them. I want to limit what I say …
“The problem is not with the word worldview. The problem is with what we naturally tend to think of as our eyes. Of course, blindness is not a worldview, and it is an improvement if we move from that blindness to coherent thoughts that we think. A brainview is better than blindness. But the real …
For many years, one of the things I have most liked to do is stick up for Puritans. If there is ever a contest for “most misrepresented” groups within the history of Christendom, the Puritans will certainly be in the final four, and would probably win the championship. Caricatured as stuffy, priggish, censorious, prim, prudish …
“When Chesterton writes about anything, each thought is like a living cell, containing all the DNA that could, if called upon, reproduce the rest of the body. Everything is somehow contained in anything. This is why you can be reading Chesterton on Dickens and learn something crucial about marriage, or streetlights, or something else” (Writers …
The central thing that believing Christians have to learn in our current cultural challenges is how to deal with the full court press. We have to learn how to break the press. At the same time, in order to do this successfully, we have to learn how to dismiss irrelevancies. We do not need to …
“Future readers, a century or two out, might make the mistake of calling the twentieth century a truly Christian literary age, because the only writers from that age still being read are overwhelmingly Christian. ‘Ah,’ they will say—‘a golden age of the Christian faith, when giants walked the earth. Not like today . . .’ …
