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Righteousness in the Sermon on the Mount
By Scott Kistler On July 29, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Biblical Studies, Christ & Culture, Discipleship/Sanctification, Ethics
The radical righteousness that Christ explains in the Sermon on the M0unt is tough to understand and just as hard to apply. Peter Leithart takes a shot in an article in Credenda Agenda. He notes some interpretations: Christ wanted to replace the law, Christ wanted us to have better attitudes while [...]
Peter Leithart posts a thoughtful and beautiful reflection on baptism that I amen throughout, but only if he qualifies his last comments:
That is the calling that baptism lays on your son today. His baptism calls him, of course, to obedience and faith, but not only that. Through baptism, he is brought [...]
Peter Leithart quotes historians Luther Peterson and R. Po-Chia Hsia’s contentions that the desire for confessional uniformity (whether Catholic, Lutheran, or Calvinist) in the 16th and 17th centuries helps to explain “he transformation of medieval feudal monarchies into modern states, in particular how the new states changed their inhabitants into disciplined, [...]
American Saints and Relics
By Scott Kistler On June 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Christ & Culture, History, Politics, The Mysterious World of American Evangelicalism
No, I don’t just copy everything Peter Leithart writes and then post it on my blog. But it wouldn’t be a terrible idea. This post of his is short enough that I’m just going to copy and post it here. Really interesting stuff. I’m enjoying catching up on his blog after [...]
Leithart passes on Mack Holt’s observation that the French wars of religion make sense not as conflicts over beliefs but as conflicts over what kind of society they would have:
Religion at that time should be seen as “a body of believers rather than the more modern definition of a body of beliefs.” [...]
Leithart writes that Augustine saw apologetic significance of the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies in the triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire:
We might expect Augustine to launch into a detailed analysis of how the prophecies of the Old Testament were fulfilled in the gospel accounts, but he goes elsewhere. [...]
Peter Leithart on African Christian Theology
By Scott Kistler On April 16, 2010 · 2 Comments · In The Mysterious World of American Evangelicalism, Theology
Leithart argues that African Christians’ freedom from what he calls Western “dualism” offers much to correct white Christians’ theology. Leithart believes that this dualism was spawned by the Enlightenment, isolating the Bible from other realms of knowledge and therefore delegitimizing it in those realms of knowledge. Check out the article for [...]
Peter Leithart passes on an observation from William Cavanaugh’s Theopolitical Imagination: the Reformation took hold in kingdoms where unresolved tensions remained between the monarchy and the papacy. In France and Spain, the papacy had ceded powers to the kings, and thus the monarchies lacked [...]
“Emerging adults” and Liberal Theology
By Scott Kistler On November 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Christ & Culture, The Mysterious World of American Evangelicalism
Peter Leithart comments on the end of Christian Smith’s Souls in Transition. Here is his full post:
Near the end of his recent Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults, Christian Smith summarizes the argument of a 1995 article by N. Jay Demerath of [...]
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