Turning around
On history, human nature, and The Matrix.
history
That monstrous paradox
On Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling.”
A sudden disintegration
A review of “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America” (2017), by Frances Fitzgerald.
Weary of particulars
On Hegel, history, and art.
Emperor Trump?
On Trump and historical analogies.
Has God disappeared?
On Job and historical comparisons.
This paradise of books
An essay on books, reality, and life.
Unaffected by history?
A review of “Why Study the Past?” by Rowan Williams.
The history that lies between
A review of “The Moral Vision of the New Testament” by Richard Hays.
Normative requirements
On history and the study of religion.
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.
Neoliberal Jesus
A review of “Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism” by James Crossley.
Atheism’s origins
A review of “Atheists: The Origin of the Species” by Nick Spencer.
The evangelical imagination
A review of “Apostles of Reason” by Molly Worthen.
Augustine’s mantle
A review of “Confessing History” edited by John Fea et al.
Our fractured age
A short essay on “A Secular Age.”
Framing Christian apologetics
A review of two new books on Christian apologetics.
The presence of the past
An essay on the phenomenology of the past.
Gordon Wood and the writing of history
A brief reflection on the “historiographical operation.”
Atheism’s modern history
A review of “A Short History of Atheism” by Gavin Hyman.
Rejecting triumphalism
A review of “Religion in Human Evolution” by Robert Bellah
Taking stock
A review of “Dilemmas and Connections” by Charles Taylor.
Historicizing Christian nationalism
A review of “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?” by John Fea.
Religious and atheist diversity
Does diversity only count against religion, or atheism too?
Immoral atheism?
An essay on an article on atheism in “Christianity Today.”