The Calvinist International
Dr. Bradley J. Birzer at The Imaginative Conservative writes about Christian humanists in the twentieth century, including lights such as C.S. Lewis, Étienne Gilson, and Christopher Dawson. The whole article is worthwhile reading for those interested in themes TCI discusses often; perhaps even more notably, the article spends time discussing the notable similarities as well […]
The Humane Pursuits website isn’t new, but it has recently gotten a new look. While there are some areas of disagreement between Humane Pursuits and TCI, on the whole the two sites share a remarkably similar ethos and methodology. Their emphasis on Christian humanism is refreshing, and their philosophy of work definitely seems to be on […]
My participation here at TCI has been a bit slow for the past two months. Our other contributors have done a fine job at keeping new material coming, but I have only been able to write brief notes here and there. One of the more exciting projects that has been eating up my time is […]
I’ve been reading through John Arthur Smith’s Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, so far a fascinating and engaging read. Mr. Smith does have a few moments of skepticism which I do not share (his reluctance to trust 1 & 2 Chronicles for 1st Temple history being the most significant), but otherwise I am finding […]
Here is some good news for The King’s College in NYC. Dr. Thornbury’s most-recent book, Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom of Carl F. H. Henry was a helpful call to American Evangelicalism to leave the commitment communes and return to the older wisdom of Christian Humanism. The King’s College now has a president who can faithfully […]
Last week I referred to the “progressivist” strain in Greek cultural thinking, which was associated with Prometheus and which tracked a general advancement of mankind from his earliest days to the present. But there is another strain as well, the “primitivist” one, in which the history of mankind is described as a general decline over […]