According to Maximus the Confessor in One Hundred Chapters of Love, the key to directing and increasing one's desire for God is the acquisition of the virtues-which, you'll recall, we described above...
By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer...
The church's theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith were reduced to atemporal moral...
Or, to put it another way, presuppositional apologetics--such as that developed by Francis Schaeffer, but also by Cornelius Van Til and, to a degree, Herman Dooeyeweerd--rejects classical apologetics...
But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share in this devaluation of power and discipline as inherently evil? Can we who claim to be disciples...
It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate the account of knowledge offered by Augustine and Aquinas. On this ancient-medieva...
By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is g...
While formally or structurally speaking, there are mechanisms of discipline operative in both the convent and the prison, in both the factory and the monastery, more specifically these disciplines and...
Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment o...
And I’m looking through the glass Where the light bends at the cracks And I’m screaming at the top of my lungs Pretending the echoes belong to someone — Someone I used to know.
Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.
Do we tell ourselves we’re just going in order to guard against the disappointment of never arriving? Do we call the road home to avoid the pain of never being welcomed?
We confess knowledge without certainty, truth without objectivity.
Scripture envisions the identity and faith of the people of God as a song.
James Smith argues that liturgies are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.
Not surprisingly, where Barnes really appreciates the haunting of immanence is in the realm of the aesthetic.
Excarnation The process by which religion (and Christianity in particular) is dis-embodied and de-ritualized, turned into a belief system.
Ethical knowledge is the emplotment of one’s life in the theological narrative
The call to follow Christ, the call to desire his kingdom, does not simplify our lives by segregating us in some pure space; to the contrary, the call to bear Christ’s image complicates our lives beca...
But one of the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation, Taylor argues, was a disenchantment of the world. Critical of the ways such an enchanted, sacramental understanding of the world h...