Empty Sky Conservatism
“We therefore begin our lives with an incalculable debt. That we did not choose the debt is of no moral import. It is inherent to our existence.”
A Christian Futurism
The Christian is free to create, to progress, to more perfectly refract God’s creating light in created things.
Tradition and Antisemitism
A postliberal future must confront directly the problems of tradition and history.
The Impossible Bronze Age Mindset
The vitalists may rage, but they cannot escape the snare. After the interruption of the cross of Jesus Christ, there can no longer be a Bronze Age Mindset.
The Culture Keeps the Score
The language of trauma cannot be allowed to displace the church’s own distinctive speech.
Was Nietzsche Right?
Wolfe’s book will prove to be a Rorschach test of sorts.
Is Power Abusive?
The Protestant tradition possesses the resources to hold together the epistemological poles of creation and revelation. And it is those resources that Christians must draw upon to build a lasting, theologically compelling rejoinder to what’s commonly called wokeness.
How Not to Become a Cyborg
Human, Forever is indisputably a must-read for those concerned about what human existence will look like “after the digital turn.” Not only is it a penetrating diagnosis of the contemporary condition, the book is a distinctly Christian-inflected chastening of some of the more audacious “postliberal” political philosophies out there, those that fail to take seriously what the digital disruption has wrought. Freedom from technology, Poulos submits, must also mean freedom from the dreams of empire, and a return to the limits of the local.
The Embarrassment Reflex: Evangelicals and Culture
What might an evangelical academy look like that refused this embarrassment reflex, that declined to allow its theological core to be subordinated to the social-science canon?
