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God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide

A new release by Gordon College’s Thomas Albert Howard, God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide is a thoroughly researched examination of the contrasting religious paths between Europeans and Americans. Professor Howard, winner of the Lilly Fellows Program Book Award for 2007 for Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German…
July 15, 2012
Review Essays

Mathematics Through the Eyes of Faith and A Certain Ambiguity

David B. Klanderman is Professor of Mathematics and Director of Education Programs at Trinity Christian College, and Sharon K. Robbert is Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Academic Planning and Effectiveness at Trinity Christian College. In our experience, preaching to the choir is a necessary but insufficient pedagogical strategy. At Trinity, faculty members seek to…
July 15, 2012
Review and Response

The Unintended Reformation

Matthew Lundin is Assistant Professor of History at Wheaton College. “The irony could hardly be greater: history itself tends to inhibit historical understanding and hence human self-awareness” (9). Thus does Brad Gregory, in the introduction to his powerfully argued account of the origins of modernity, critique the hyper-specialization rampant in the historical profession. By parceling…
July 15, 2012
Review and Response

Response to Matthew Lundin’s Review of The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society

Brad S. Gregory is the Dorothy G. Griffin Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame. I am grateful to Matthew Lundin for his articulate review of The Unintended ReformationBrad S. Gregory. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society.Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.…
July 15, 2012
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Reading Scripture with the Reformers

William Chillingworth proclaimed in 1638, “The Bible, the Bible only I say, is the religion of the Protestants” (12); this is the sense in which Timothy George’s treatment of the Reformers’ handling of Scripture is played out for the reader. This book is the introductory release from InterVarsity’s upcoming commentary series, which will edit and…
June 15, 2012
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Bernard Lonergan’s Critique of Reductionism: A Call to Intellectual Conversion

In this essay David W. Aiken argues that Bernard Lonergan’s contribution to recent Christian thought continues to be undervalued despite its depth, integrative scope, and relevance to contemporary issues. One such issue concerns whether methodological naturalism in the natural sciences warrants a reductionistic metaphysics, anthropology and epistemology. Lonergan’s holistic account of human intelligence and its…
April 15, 2012
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The Imago Dei and Philosophical Anthropology

Theologians have long explored the meaning of the biblical notion of the imago dei for our understanding of the complexities of human personhood. In recent years the focus has often been on the “functional-relational,” as opposed to an “ontological,” account of the imago. Richard J. Mouw reflects here on the ways in which these biblical-theological…
Richard Mouw
April 15, 2012
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Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice

Co-authors David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet set out in their book Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice with a relatively modest purpose, envisioning their task “as that of suggesting ways that a Christian worldview can provide a pertinent and fruitful approach to literary study as an academic discipline” (27). They wish to…
April 15, 2012