When the Emperor Valens sent messengers to lure Eusebius into heresy by fair words and glowing promises, the saint answered them: “Alas, …
Joe Carter promptly responded to Ryan Lizza’s Michelle Bachmann piece over at First Things: A Journalism Lesson for the New Yorker | …
James Davison Hunter says that, “…Christianity in North America…is a weak culture; weak insofar as it is fragmented in it’s core beliefs …
There’s a lot in Peter Leithart’s interview with Jason Hood at the Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology’s website, so I …
Justin Holcomb, writing at The Resurgence blog, writes short descriptions of the lives of several women that God used in the 16th …
I think Horne should have heeded his suspicions in his first words, “Perhaps I’m over-reacting”. Read Piper’s brief post: http://desiringgod.org/blog/posts/thankful-they-embraced-the-risk And then …
Hyde, Daniel R.. Welcome to a Reformed Church: A Guide for Pilgrims. Orlando, Fla.: Reformation Trust Pub., 2010. Print. Reformation Trust provided …
I liked Peter Leithart’s quotation and explication of Martin Bucer’s words. This was his short post: Bucer wrote, “Because by faith we …
I listened to this interview on NPR’s Fresh Air while washing the dishes today. Terry Gross talked to journalist Isabel Wilkerson about …
Eccentric Culture is a brief book (less than 200 pages), but dense and challenging. It also has a fairly simple thesis: European …
I continue my review of Andrew Napolitano’s, “Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America” with this second installment …
I found this review that I wrote for my own memory after I read King Leopold’s Ghost in the winter of 2007-2008, and …
We often hear that people don’t know much history anymore. Some studies suggest that there’s never really been a golden age (at …
I finally read Animal Farm recently. I had read 1984 about 15 years ago and enjoyed it, but had never followed it …
“Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America” by Andrew Napolitano (2009). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. A review …
Peter Leithart quotes historians Luther Peterson and R. Po-Chia Hsia’s contentions that the desire for confessional uniformity (whether Catholic, Lutheran, or Calvinist) …
No, I don’t just copy everything Peter Leithart writes and then post it on my blog. But it wouldn’t be a terrible …
Leithart passes on Mack Holt’s observation that the French wars of religion make sense not as conflicts over beliefs but as conflicts …
Leithart writes that Augustine saw apologetic significance of the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies in the triumph of Christianity in the Roman …
Peter Leithart wrote a short post on a piece by 19th-century Russian philosopher Ivan Kireevsky. Leithart notes that Kireevsky was a Slavophile, …
Peter Leithart passes on an observation from William Cavanaugh’s Theopolitical Imagination: the Reformation took hold in kingdoms where unresolved tensions remained between …
Here are some quotes from Ronald Kydd’s volume, “Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church”: Kydd (1997:27) notes that Justin Martyr (100-168? A.D.), …
Through reading Litfin’s Getting to Know the Church Fathers, I found out that the short narrative of Justin’s martyrdom is online at …
Ignatius, bishop of Antich, wrote 7 letters on his way to be martyred in Rome, addressed to his friend Polycarp, bishop of …
I’ve been episodically reading David Engel’s Zionism in Pearson’s “Short Histories of Big Ideas” series. It seems like a good, fair, and …
That would be Charles Simeon, the great Anglican is who is perhaps unknown to many. John Piper had some great comments about …
My first response to Noll’s work is to express my appreciation and respect for the amount of research and expertise that went …
The last major chapter of America’s God compares the subtlety and humility of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address in March 1865 with the …
In my last post, I summarized Mark Noll’s (America’s God) belief that American evangelicals in the early 19th century generally accepted the …
Noll now explores the changes in American theology that came after independence. Noll believes that the new, republican order that overturned the …
After chronicling the Americanization of Calvinist and Methodist theology, Mark Noll in America’s God turns to American biblical hermeneutics, the way that …
Chapters 13-17 of America’s God consider the process by which the two major theological traditions in early America became Americanized; in other …
Chapter 12 of America’s God explains the tenets of what Noll calls “American theology.” He believes that as American evangelicals built a …
Scholars have begun to think about the way that Jesus and Paul called the Roman Empire into question. I think that it …
Chapter 10 of America’s God discusses the cultural consequences of the rapid expansion of evangelicalism. How, he asks, did evangelicalism come to …
In Chapters 7-8 of America’s God, Mark Noll shows himself to be a careful historian as he documents how traditional and “innovative” …
In Chapter 6 of America’s God, Noll continues in his exploration of how American Christianity became so connected with two streams of …
Noll’s fifth chapter analyzes the American combination of Christianity and republican political ideas, which was a rare combination in the 18th and …
Noll’s fifth fourth chapter in America’s God describes the unusual agreement between traditional Christians and republican political ideas in late 18-century America. …
In Chapter 3 of America’s God, Noll writes that while Jonathan Edwards ably defended the doctrines of Calvinism in a way that …
I’ve finally gotten a chance to begin, for at least the second time, Mark Noll’s America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham …
If you’ve never read Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” do two things. First, ask yourself, “Why not?” Then, check it …
