On Reading Bonhoeffer…After Metaxas
I began reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a college Freshman at Northwest University. My reading of Bonhoeffer has continued in sporadic fashion over the last ten years, and I have completed every major...
View ArticleWhy not Letter and Papers from Prison?
Since posting my recommended track for reading Bonhoeffer, I have received several inquiries, and come across several comments on Facebook wondering why Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison (LP)...
View ArticleJuly Reading…
Three great new books from IVP, Crossway, and Baker… 1. A necessary corrective to the ways in which the Reformation is exaggerated and often mis-understood....
View ArticleReview: In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessmet
James F. Sennett and Douglas Groothuis. In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005). Reviewed by: Sarah Schoonmaker, M.Div. Current MA...
View ArticleThinking Theo-logically with The Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy
Before I jump into today’s blog post, I want to take time to commend IVP Academic for their exemplary work in Church History in recent months. They have produced several important books that provide...
View ArticleWashing the Emperor’s Clothes?: An Introduction to Defending Constantine by...
n a certain sense we might say that the amount of courage Peter Leithart demonstrated in writing a book defending the Roman emperor Constantine, is equal to the amount of courage required of...
View ArticleUnity & Theology: Why You Should Read Gregg Allison’s Historical Theology
We’re all familiar with the saying, ‘those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it’. Christianity from its earliest days has been more divided than unified. This remains equally true...
View ArticleIntroduction to Reformed Scholasticism
Reformed scholasticism is for most people a largely unknown era in theology. Reformed Christians tend to skip right over it much like American Christians skip from Augustine to Calvin, Calvin to...
View ArticleMapping Modern Theology with Kelly Kapic and Bruce McCormack
Click to Purchase Who wasn’t intimidated the first time they cracked Calvin’s Institutes, Schleiermacher’s Christian Faith, or Barth’s Dogmatics? Unlike Biblical Studies or History, Theology often does...
View ArticleA Puritanically Good Time
Ok, ok, I admit it–I love the Puritans. Love the Puritans. Whenever I read them, I feel at home. Like I have come to a safe place wherein I know that I will always hear the gospel, receive moral...
View ArticleNow Available: The Holy Spirit–In Biblical Teaching, through the Centuries,...
Click to purchase! Some of the hottest debates in twentieth-century Christianity whirled around the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Fueled by early-century pentecostal revivals at places like Los Angeles’...
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