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What do we do when we disagree about what the Scriptures say? Augustine’s answer to that question…

A “Kantian chapter on emotion and responsibility,” write John Sabini and Maury Silver (Emotion, Character, and Responsibility), …

Since at least Max Weber, historians and sociologists have assumed that the Reformation contributed to what Weber…

The Chronicler’s account of Hezekiah’s Passover (2 Chronicles 30:1–12) is arranged in a neat chiasm: A. Hezekiah…

The late John Webster offers this statement about the relationship between Scripture and “dogmatic reasoning” about creation…

Anthony Kronman begins his monumental Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan with several chapters on gratitude and its…

At the New Yorker, Blythe Roberson is having fun imagining futuristic updates of Jane Austen’s novels. Real-life…

Paul writes letters. Letter-writing—or mail electronically composed and delivered—has become so commonplace that we don’t immediately grasp…

Few studies of the Reformation, writes Alexandra Walsham (The Reformation of the Landscape), “have considered how it…

John Calvin isn’t the first theologian who comes to mind when thinking about either liturgy or art,…

Boyd Hilton writes (in Age of Atonement) about Evangelical “aetiology of business immorality” that emerges from 19th-century…

Ahaz of Judah didn’t dismantle the temple, but he might as well have done. He cut up…

Robert Emmons’s study of the “new science of gratitude” (Thanks!) begins with a discussion of what gratitude…

Many Reformed theologians have taught that redemption in history unfolds from a “covenant of redemption” (pactum salutis)…

Lutheran Pastor James Prothro generously allowed me to see an advance manuscript of his forthcoming Both Judge and…