09 Jul 2018
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
As we continue our thoughts on gay Christianity and “spiritual friendship,” we need to take an important detour. My original plan to was to move from concupiscence to the topic of effeminacy, but as I worked through Augustine’s writings on concupiscence, I was confronted with his peculiar theories...
Read more → 06 Dec 2017
Posted by Stephen J Hayhow 
Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers David S. Sytsma Published: Oxford, August 24, 2017 352 Pages The Richard Baxter we know was the faithful pastor of Kidderminster, author of the Reformed Pastor, the Christian Directory and The Saint’s Everlasting Rest....
Read more → 31 Oct 2017
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Since everyone knows that Martin Luther caused the modern capitalist order, we thought we'd lean right into that bad boy and use today's date to unveil the Davenant Institute's latest publishing endeavor! Behold, we present to you Reformation Theology: A Reader of Primary Sources with Introductions....
Read more → 31 Aug 2017
Posted by Joseph Minich 
James Dolezal - All That is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2017), 162 + xiv pages. James Dolezal has written an important book, a passionate and pastoral defense of a doctrine (divine simplicity and its implicates)...
Read more → 12 May 2016
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Some friends and I have put out a new book which will be of interest to TCI readers. For Law and For Liberty: Essays on the Trans-Atlantic Legacy of Protestant Political Thought is the published collection of essays which were first presented at the 2015 Convivium Irenicum. The 2016 Convivium Irenicum...
Read more → 01 Apr 2016
Posted by Jonathan Roberts 
Kirk MacGregor, Luis de Molina, Zondervan, 2015, 288 pp. We warmly thank the publisher for providing a complimentary copy of this book for review. As with the early modern period, there is much about Luis de Molina that we really don't know. In hopes of shedding some light upon this enigmatic...
Read more → 07 Jan 2016
Posted by Simon Kennedy 
Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism (Cambridge: Belknap Press), 2014, 434 pp + viii. At the very beginning of Inventing the Individual, Larry Siedentop laments in terms that will resonate with many. Many goods of the past are lost. The western world, taken...
Read more → 04 Nov 2015
Posted by Simon Kennedy 
Mark J. Larson, Abraham Kuyper, Conservatism, and Church and State (Eugene: Wipf and Stock), 2015, 111 pp + xii. Abraham Kuyper is becoming more and more a point of conversation for politically-minded Christians. Indeed, as my TCI associate Jordan Ballor has just pointed out, we threaten...
Read more → 25 Jun 2015
Posted by Laurence O’Donnell 
A. G. Sertillanges, O.P., The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, trans. Mary Ryan (1987; repr. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press 1998). How does one acquire the treasure of knowledge?1 What duties, habits, virtues, and practices ought to order the Christian intellectual’s...
Read more → 14 Apr 2015
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
(This is not a full review. It is a brief series of summary thoughts.) Anyone who has a desire to understand the nexus of forces that conspired to create rural and small-town middle America as we know it (or as we pretend not to know it)--that part of the country, "fly-over country," alternately...
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