Posts with the category “philosophy”

Why give you a list of books? Because we think reading is important, and we think Christians ought to be reading books. Social media allows for discourse as sophisticated as a hammer trying to play a ...  Read More

IntroductionIn the book, What is a Person?, Christian Smith argues that human beings express specific capacities, powers, limits, and tendencies that form human nature.[1] These features reveal that m...  Read More

IntroductionTo be authentically human is to behave creaturely. God is the Creator. Humans are the prize of creation, made in God’s image. To be fully human is to embrace your creatureliness. You are c...  Read More

IntroductionThe problem is murmured in its various forms within the Christian world. The state university, once a civic institution devoted to the dissemination of knowledge, now labors under the weig...  Read More

Wendell Berry concludes his poem, Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front, with the exhortation to “practice resurrection.” In this same poem, he says, “Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is ...  Read More

IntroductionThe wider intellectual trend of the “age of light” (as Jonathan Edwards referred to the Enlightenment) was the emphasis on man’s libertarian free will—the individual’s wholly unfettered wi...  Read More

IntroductionImagine a father and his three-year-old daughter step out for a neighborhood stroll. The familiar sights and sounds hum around them. The sun, in its gentle descent, casts a warm glow upon ...  Read More