That monstrous paradox
On Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling.”
Weary of particulars
Thoughts on Hegel, history, and art.
This paradise of books
A short essay on books, reality, and life.
The search after truth: an Enlightenment episode
An historical essay on how Hugo Grotius helped the enlightenment reform Christian apologetics.
Inventing the virtuous atheist: an Enlightenment episode
An historical essay on how Plutarch helped the enlightenment invent the virtuous atheist.
Taking “the Bible as it is”
An essay on how to interpret and characterize the Bible truly.
No religion
A short essay on the political consequences of the decline in religious identity.
A whip out of cords
An essay on the politics of Jesus.
Commit sociology (or, ignore Stephen Harper)
A short essay on why Stephen Harper’s attack on the social sciences is bogus.
Disregard or despair?
An essay on how two major Christian thinkers responded to modern theology.
The presence of the past
A short essay on the phenomenology of the past.
Gordon Wood and the writing of history
A short essay on historiography, Gordon Wood, and Maya Jasanoff.
Religious and atheist diversity
A short essay on atheist diversity.
Immoral atheism?
A short response to an article on atheism from “Christianity Today.”