Insisting that political leaders are incapable of obeying Christ
Oliver O’Donovan on the unintended consequences of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
An unwitting agent for the secularization of America
Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and George Marsden explain how a prominent Christian Founding Father added momentum to the secularization of America
Questioning “conservatives”
John Lukacs asserts that believers in unending technological ‘progress’ can’t really be conservatives.
What makes a great historian?
John Lukacs on how historian Christopher Dawson displayed a proper nostalgia
From democracy to bureaucracy
Historian John Lukacs on the challenges of living at the End of an Age
The life was the light of men
Robert Jenson reflects on the relationship that should be sustained between the Church and those of her members with an “intellectual” vocation.
The ecstasy of the act of knowing
Theologian Paul Griffiths situates our creaturely knowing within the framework of the relation between God and Creation
Freedom as conformity to reality
W. Bradford Littlejohn summarizes the definitions of liberty offered by Richard Bauckham and Oliver O’Donovan
Looking for solutions in all the wrong places
Christopher A. Hall on how Thomas C. Oden (1931–2016) discovered the wisdom of the ancient Church
Discernment of personal mission
Thomas C. Oden on how he came to understand his vocation within a slow growth toward orthodoxy