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February 2017
Veritas Forum: Seeking Satisfaction

Veritas Forum: Satisfaction and the Good Life

In this particular Veritas Forum, Dr. Tim Keller, prolific Christian author and founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, represented the Christian faith, and Professor Mark Lilla, intellectual historian at Columbia University, represented a secular worldview.

Nathan Barlow | The Columbia Crown and Cross | Fall 2016 (blog)
Prophecy, Progress, and Repentance

Prophecy, Progress, and Repentance: The Role of the Individual in Human History

Therefore, prophecy is primarily concerned with what may occur if the errant currents of the present are allowed to flow unaltered into the local or temporally proximal future.

Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

January 2017
From Absurdism to Hope

Restless Seeker: From Absurdism to Hope

Perhaps as Camus had illustrated in the myth of Sisyphus, the struggle itself was enough to fill the heart. Except that with time it was not.

Erjona Topalli | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016

November 2016
When God Speaks Back Today

When God Speaks Back Today: Divine Revelation After the Bible

Behind these occurrences is the belief that divine revelation is not a thing of the past—that God actively communicates with us in perceivable ways even today.

Marcos Martinez | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2016

October 2016
Can God and Free Will Coexist?

Can God and Free Will Coexist? Examining the Augustinian Solution

If God knows what is going to happen in the future, and his power necessarily brings this event into being, then it seems like all events occur independently of human agency.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

May 2016
For the Good of All Creation

For the Good of All Creation: A Christian Ecological Ethic

Ecological crisis, whether as dramatic as some predict or not, means we must reconsider the be­liefs implicit in a system that exploits humans, creatures, and natural resources.

Nicole Newell | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2015

April 2016
The Sin of Adam

The Sin of Adam: Two Allegorical Accounts of the Fall

Recov­ering the literal sense of the Greek hamar­tia—translated in our Bibles as "sin"—we have "missed the mark."

Erin Kast | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2015

March 2016
Faith and Learning

Faith and Learning

Does Christianity pose a challenge to intellectual inquiry?

Trevor Davis | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015
Death and Darwinism

Death and Darwinism: A Patristic Approach

The Fall is the means by which Christian theology accounts for the disparity between the purported character of God and the tragic state of our world.

Christopher Iacovetti | The Wheaton Pub | Fall 2015

July 2015
The Rhetoric of Worldviews

The Rhetoric of Worldviews: Narratives of Violence and Peace

On September 16, 2014, an incident occurred at James Madison University (JMU) that soon attracted the attention of national media news outlets.

Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015

May 2015
Towards a Divine Understanding of Beauty

Towards a Divine Understanding of Beauty

Beauty is a question that consistently plagued some of the most influential Christian thinkers in the early centuries of the church.

Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

February 2015
I Believe in Magazines

I Believe in Magazines: Proverbs for Publishing

"Because magazines are literally periodical, they create an ongoing community—readers, writers, editors, benefactors. And only communities can change cultures."

Augustine Collective | James K.A. Smith | January 2015

August 2014
A Response to CS Lewis Four Loves

A Response to C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves

By revisiting the Greek to establish categories into which love can be divided, The Four Loves gives a framework for practicing love.

Abby Thornburg | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2013
The Invisible and Invisible Church

The Visible and Invisible Church

The invisible church is a term for all believers in Jesus Christ. ... A visible church is a human organization that supports Christians in their varied expressions of belief, trust, in Christ.

Steven Lee | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2014

June 2014
Costly Consolation

Costly Consolation: Freud’s Illusion and Bonhoefferian Grace

Sigmund Freud once wrote that the idea of religion is “born from man’s need to make his helplessness tolerable.”

Paul Escher | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2014

January 2014
The Problem of Good

The Problem of Good: Is Christianity Necessary?

Just as people have taken the presence of evil as a reason to question the validity of Christianity, so also people have seen the presence of good as inconsistent with Christianity’s message.

Nathaniel Schmucker | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2013

October 2013
Just Politics

A Response to Ronald Sider’s Just Politics

Sider attempts to develop a biblical political philosophy. This is best done, Sider argues, not by proof texting from the Bible on every political issue but instead by developing a biblical view of both persons and the world as a whole and applying this view to politics.

Hayden Kvamme | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2013
The Personal Journey of a Faith-filled Scientist

The Personal Journey of a Faith-Filled Scientist

My college pastor once asked me, “What does Christ have to do with chemistry?”

David A. Vosburg | The Claremont Ekklesia | Fall 2014

September 2013
Meeting God in the Classroom

Meeting God in the Classroom

God takes delight when we take delight in His creation; if we would prefer to study philosophy instead of medicine, Caribbean wildlife instead of law, or Slavic poetry instead of business, we should ask ourselves if that desire comes from God. If it does, maybe He gave us that desire for a reason.

Calvin Jennings | UPenn Common Subjects |

August 2013
Eternity in the Moment

Eternity in the Moment

To respond to Nietzsche’s criticism, and indeed to contemporary understandings of time and meaning, the Christian needs to point out a model for a life that partakes in its own positive affirmation, but in the right way.

David Nolan | The Williams Telos | Spring 2013

September 2012
The Moral Gap

The Moral Gap

It is incoherent to put us under a demand we cannot reach. Yet surely we are under the moral demand. How are we to explain this paradox?

Dr. John Hare | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2012, Volume 6, Issue 2

February 2012
crusades

Historicity & Holy War: Putting the Crusades in Context

When analyzing any historical event, and particularly one so fraught with misinterpretation and exaggeration, it is crucial to look at both its context and its causes. The Crusades did not spontaneously appear from a historical vacuum.

Blake Neff | The Dartmouth Apologia | Volume 6, Issue 1, Fall 2011

August 2011
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The Christian Integration of Morality, Freedom, and Happiness

There is much skepticism about this claim that morality, especially Christian morality, could ever be connected to happiness.

Peter Blair | The Dartmouth Apologia |

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