Casey Cep of The New Yorker has written the best piece on Marilynne Robinson I have ever read. As some of you know, Robinson has a new book out in her “Gilead” series. It is titled Jack. In these excerpts,...
Calvinism
The Pot-Smoking Dutch Calvinists Who Stopped “worshipping the Ph.D.” and Gave Their Students “guerrilla credentials.”
I don’t pretend to know much about Dutch Calvinism in America or the differences between Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd. (There are good books on the subject, I would start with the work of James D. Bratt). But I know...
The Author’s Corner with Kevin DeYoung
Kevin DeYoung is Senior Pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Charlotte, North Carolina and Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. This interview is based on his new book, The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon: Calvinism, Evangelicalism, and...
The Author’s Corner with D.L. Noorlander
D.L. Noorlander is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oneonta. This interview is based on his new book, Heaven’s Wrath: The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World (Cornell University...
Beware of Social Justice Warriors and Women Preachers
The anti-social justice warriors and complementarians are at it again. Here is Religion News Service: (RNS) — A video posted by Founders Ministries, a neo-Calvinist evangelical group, paints Bible teacher Beth Moore, Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore, a former president of...
Calvinists and Their Christian America Cruises
Check out Jack Jenkins’s recent piece at Religion News Service. I had never heard of these cruises until Jack called me the other day. Here is a taste: There aren’t many cruise “experience” directors who spend their days defending what...
The Author’s Corner with Adriaan Neele
Adriaan Neele is the Director of the Doctoral Program and Professor of Historical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. This interview is based on his new book, Before Jonathan Edwards: Sources of New England Theology (Oxford University Press, 2019). JF: What inspired...
Marilynne Robinson on John Calvin
Fans of Robinson‘s fiction and non-fiction know that she is an admirer of John Calvin. Over at Commonweal, Matthew Sitman just publishe an interview he conducted with Robinson that focuses on her love of the Genevan reformer. Here is a taste: MS: I...
Tweets of the Day
Trump to evangelicals: I need to win election to get into heaven https://t.co/c97l0wZpOQ pic.twitter.com/dpvmXeDQF6 — The Hill (@thehill) August 11, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Jokes based on seventeenth century Protestant theology always go over big on twitter. — Eric Rauchway (@rauchway) August...
The Anti-Christ in New Hampshire
If you have been following the GOP presidential race, you know that New Hampshire has fewer evangelicals than Iowa or South Carolina. But though evangelicals do not make a large swath of the population in the Granite State, it does...
Marilynne Robinson's Latest Collection of Essays
It is titled The Givenness of Things and it was published near the end of last year. Natasha Moore reviews it at the website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation In The Givenness of Things, Robinson carries her characteristic refusal to recognise any...
Calvin's Beatles
Four of the greatest Christian thinkers of the last generation once taught together at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They are philosophers Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, historian George Marsden, and theologian/philosopher Richard Mouw. Plantinga taught at Calvin from...
Adult Onset Calvinism
Do you have it? Stephen Altrogge, the past of Saving Grace Church in Indiana, PA, describes the symptoms at The Blazing Center.Here are few of those symptoms: A sudden urge to correct everything and everyone all the time about every...
Why Don’t Lutherans Have Celebrity Pastors?
Yesterday morning the pastor of the church I attend–a pretty mainstream evangelical congregation in the Evangelical Free Church denomination–was preaching up a storm about the “mandate” of the church to “transform” the culture for Christ. (For the record, I am...
The Author’s Corner with Abram Van Engen
Abram C. Van Engen is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. This interview is based on his recent book SympatheticPuritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). JF: What led you to...
The Author’s Corner with Mark Stoll
Mark Stoll is Associate Professor of History and Director of Environmental Studies at Texas Tech University. This interview is based on his new book, Inherit the Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Oxford University Press, 2015) JF: What led you...
The Author’s Corner with S. Scott Rohrer
Scott Rohrer is an independent historian who has published several books on religious history. This interview is based on his new book Jacob Green’s Revolution (Penn State University Press, November 2014). JF: What led you to write Jacob Green’s Revolution? SR: When I finished my...
Virtual Office Hours: Fall 2014 – Episode 5
“Thoughts on Nathan Hatch’s The Democratization of American Christianity (Part II)” In which I try to offer an accessible definition of Calvinist and Arminian views of salvation. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80kwbRclsOo] Click here to find the Bebbington Quadrilateral and Conference on Faith and History....
Bratt on Hart on Calvinism
James Bratt, a Calvinist who teaches American history at Calvin College reviews Darryl Hart’s Calvinism: A History at The Christian Century. Hart is a Calvinist who teaches American history at Hillsdale College.Here is Bratt’s opening:Some classic works on the origins of modernity...
George C. Scott Defines Calvinism in Three Minutes
Warning: F-word at the end of the videoFrom the movie Hardcore[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHS591VUfN0]HT...