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On Freedom, Love, and Power

Besides lecturing at the University of Bordeaux, Jacques Ellul opened his own home for seekers of many backgrounds to explore their questions about Scripture, faith, power, and the relation of the kingdom of God to the social and political order. Among those at Ellul’s dining room table was Willem Vanderburg, who, being blind, sought Ellul’s…
January 15, 2012
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

In Gary Shteyngart’s near-future novel Super Sad True Love Story, a poignant scene occurs when forty-something Lenny tries to read a book to twenty-something Eunice, a college graduate with the most prestigious education of her day. Eunice, faced with a Milan Kundera tome, admits, “I never really learned to read texts. ... Just to scan…
January 15, 2012
Review Essays

Natural Law and Protestantism

Jordan J. Ballor is a research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty and executive editor of the Journal of Markets and Morality. He is the author of Covenant, Causality, and Law: A Study in the Theology of Wolfgang Musculus and visiting professor of business at Kuyper College. He is…
January 15, 2012
Review and Response

Allah: A Christian Response—A Review Essay

Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? Miroslav Volf insists that they do, or at least that worthy exemplars in each tradition do. “I am not inquiring about the God of a small band of terrorists and war-mongers, but ... of the great Christian and Muslim teachers” (150). A native of Croatia, Volf is…
January 15, 2012
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Walker Percy’s Appeal to Searchers: The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming

Walker Percy (1916-1990) was a Catholic writer whose six novels picture central characters who embark on searches for divine meaning. Rich Gray shows how Percy’s protagonists reject glib secular beliefs and quest toward Christian beliefs. In interviews and essays Percy articulated a theory of the Christian novelist in an agnostic culture, in which the novelist…
October 15, 2011
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Reconsidering the Liberal Captivity of American Evangelicalism

In this essay Gillis J. Harp notes that some American Evangelicals find it difficult to conceive of a species of conservatism that preserves a moral political economy and some notion of a paternalistic state protecting the less fortunate. Yet this is the kind of conservatism that characterized the thinking of one key strand within the…
October 15, 2011
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The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation

New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham has been working toward a full treatment of Bible and ecology for some years, with articles appearing in a variety of peer-reviewed publications in the areas of biblical studies and theology. It is therefore noteworthy that he has chosen to make that fuller argument for the first time in a…
October 15, 2011