Dinosaurs and Divine Freedom: Aquinas’ Fertile Doctrine of Creation

A Review of Matthew Levering, Engaging the Doctrine of Creation: Cosmos, Creatures, and the Wise and Good Creator In many ways, the doctrine of creation in modern theology has been a doctrine in flux. Since the late eighteenth century, it has commonly been presupposed that legitimate theological knowledge extends only so far as empirical experience can…
A Proposal to End All Wars

American evangelicals have come a long way. Since the last century, they have tried to bear witness to their Savior in an increasingly post-Christian culture. Distancing themselves from the abrasive and isolationist style of early fundamentalism, and embarrassed by the anti-intellectualism of that heritage, scholars at institutions like Wheaton, Trinity, and Fuller were gradually able…
A Window in Denmark

There’s been a real need for a biography on Kierkegaard that would be both accessible and enjoyable to a broad audience. In so many respects, Stephen Backhouse’s Kierkegaard: A Single Life fills this lacuna. A Window in Denmark: Approaching Kierkegaard What Backhouse does so successfully is provide readers with a window into Kierkegaard’s life in…
Modern Medicine and Christian Dignity

“I’ve given up fighting,” my friend said, “but I haven’t given up hope.” We sat together in his home, surrounded by medical equipment provided by hospice. My friend was glad to be out of the hospital. Each time he went to the ER or for a Hospital visit, his weary body was battered by the…