Article Without Rival: Mimetic Theory in a First-Year Seminar In a global digital culture of influencers, followers, and attention-deficit disorders, mimetic theory helps show…Matthew PackerJanuary 15, 2021
Article Evangelizing Atheism: Missing the Mark in Recent Christian Film Many Christian films released in the last two decades often pitch themselves as a means…Steven VredenburghNovember 12, 2020
Article The Other Within: Rethinking Theological Anthropology in Light of the Microbiome Research on the microbiome is challenging long-held assumptions about human health. These claims are forcing…Aaron M. HillNovember 12, 2020
Article Economics, Theology, and a Case for Economic Growth: An Assessment of Recent Critiques Economic growth is controversial. While economists tend to support it, in recent decades economic growth…Edd S. Noell and Stephen L. S. SmithNovember 12, 2020
Article “I am Inclined to Look at Everything as Resulting from Designed Laws”: Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species as a Specimen of Natural Theology In the description of Darwin’s life and work, a common assumption is that he gradually…Gijsbert van den Brink and Harry CookNovember 12, 2020
Article Shaping Prophetic Voices for the Public Sphere “Shaping Prophetic Voices for the Public Sphere” discusses the role of the church in the…Abson Prédestin JosephJuly 15, 2020
Article Cruciformity and the Public Intellectual: Christian Weakness for the Common Good Public intellectuals deploy their thinking as a way of exercising power and influence. Simply put,…Mark StephensJuly 15, 2020
Article Seeking the Common Good by Educating for Wisdom It is a noble aspiration that Christian scholars contribute in more constructive ways to discussions…Darin H. DavisJuly 15, 2020
Article The Public Theology of all Baptized Believers: Wisdom from Don Davis, Robert Romero, and Paige Cunningham North American evangelicals display a growing concern to engage the public square with wisdom. This…Hank VossJuly 15, 2020
Article From “Stranger” to “Neighbor”: Neurodiversity’s Visionary Opportunities as Public Intellectuals Promote the Common Good “Neurodiversity’s Visionary Opportunities” creates caring definitions, establishes philosophical principles supporting the common good, offers transcendent…Mark EckelJuly 15, 2020
Article Introduction to the Theme Issue: Public Intellectuals and the Common Good: Christian Thinking for Human Flourishing Todd C. Ream is Professor of Higher Education at Taylor University, the Senior Fellow for…Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale and Christopher J. DeversJuly 15, 2020
Article Subversive Christian Allegory in In the Heat of the Night (1967) Overlooked by film critics, screenwriter Stirling Silliphant crafted subversive Christian allegory into his Academy Award-winning…Geert HeetebrijApril 15, 2020
Article Disembodied Souls Without Dualism: Thomas Aquinas on Why You Won’t Go to Heaven When You Die (but Your Soul Just Might) I argue in defense of a particular answer to the question “what happens to us…Adam WoodApril 15, 2020
Article Are We Underthinking Underemployment?: Toward a More Inclusive Theology of Vocation Does the way Christians talk about work apply only to the privileged? For the majority…Christine JeskeApril 15, 2020
Article Reading to Listen and Writing to Speak: A Pedagogical Challenge for the Selfie Age This essay examines the intersecting pedagogical and theological stakes of conflating our practices of reading…Bethany WilliamsonJanuary 15, 2020
Article On Kuyper and Technology, or How a Voice From the Past Can Speak to our Digital Age In this reflection, the author shares some insights he has found in Kuyper that can…Derek C. SchuurmanJanuary 15, 2020
Article Plagiarism as the Language of Ownership: Aligning Academic Liturgy with Christian Virtue Policies regarding plagiarism and academic integrity are among the most common liturgies in American higher…Rachel B. GriffisJanuary 15, 2020
Article Cast Your Nets to the Right Side: Faith, Virtue, and the Morality of Food Choices In this paper, I examine the relationship between evangelical Christian faith and the morality of…Michael McGowanJanuary 15, 2020
Article Aristotle and Tolkien: An Essay in Comparative Poetics Both Aristotle and Tolkien are authors of short works seemingly concentrated on one form of…Gene FendtOctober 15, 2019
Article “A Medium for Meeting God”: C. S. Lewis and Music (Especially Wagner) This essay will survey Lewis’s writings and outline the development of his aesthetic ideas in…John MacInnisOctober 15, 2019