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January 2018
What is Justice

What is Justice?

If Jesus’ loving death on the cross becomes the Christian archetype of justice, our vision has more in common with Socrates’ than with Thrasymachus’ or Cephalus’.

Luke Foster | The Yale Logos | Spring 2016
Redeeming Rest

Redeeming Rest

With a more robust view of time, we can rest as well as work because both add qualitative value to our lives.

Elizabeth Schmucker | Cornell Claritas | Spring 2016

November 2017
Self, Society, and the Trinitarian Posture

Self, Society, and the Trinitarian Posture

The Christian understanding of human nature instead presents a picture that merges collectivism and individualism into one coherent whole.

Amanda Wang | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2016

August 2016
The Trinity of Physics, Christianity, and Life

The Trinity of Physics, Christianity, and Life

I have come to think that science and religion are complementary pictures of truth, answering the questions of ‘how?’ and ‘why?’

Vitaly Andreev | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016

July 2016
Christian Morality and Euthyphro's Dilemma

Christian Morality and Euthyphro’s Dilemma

The changing views of society on these and other issues have to some been evidence of our moral improvement and enlightenment, and to others a sign of moral deterioration.

Richard Ibekwe | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016

June 2016
Finding Meaning in a Mysterious World

Finding Meaning in a Mysterious World: A Guide to Following the Religious Sense

Our religious sense, so defined earlier as our valences towards mystery, narrative and transformation, plays a critical role in our quest to find meaning in life.

Alex Wyvill | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2016

January 2016
Interview with Andy Crouch: Culture Making

Interview with Andy Crouch: Culture Making

Every human culture is distorted— it makes possi­ble the things that should be impossible, and it makes impossible the things that should be pos­sible, such as knowing your neighbor.

Esther Jiang | The Cornell Claritas | Fall 2015

October 2015
The Trial of Images

The Trial of Images

This “physicality” is the key, I think, in understand­ing the core difference in the way one of the methods is iconic and one is idolic.

Stephen Westich | The Wheaton Pub | Spring 2015

August 2015
The Aestheticism of the Christian "Death"

The Aestheticism of the Christian “Death”

So the hope of this essay is this: that both secular and Christian audiences find commonality in the comfort of beauty for ashes.

Henry Li | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 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

April 2015
Education for Liberty

Education for Liberty

I believe the Core actually holds out a unique and precious kind of liberty, one far richer than the typical, tired myth about college.

Luke Foster | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2013

October 2014
Does Divine Mercy Contradict Divine Justice?

Does Divine Mercy Contradict Divine Justice?

If justice is giving what is due and mercy is overlooking what is due then it appears that justice and mercy really are contradictory.

Danielle D'Souza | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

February 2014
The Church Fathers and the Rationality of Christianity

The Church Fathers and the Rationality of Christianity: An Interview with Dr. Sara Parvis

Clement of Alexandria complained that his fellow Christians thought of philosophy as some kind of ogre and ran screaming when they heard it.

Dr. Sara Parvis, Chris Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2013

August 2013
The Idea of a Christian Soul and Its Intelligibility

The Idea of a Christian Soul and Its Intelligibility

An interview with Dr. Mark Harris, professional physicist, ordained minister, and lecturer in the Religion and Science program of The University of Edinburgh’s Divinity School.

Conducted by Christopher Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2013

May 2013
Why-Obey

Why Obey?

Acting in accordance with one’s desires is more a fact than a flaw of human beings. Any moral system that actually gets people to follow it must (not ought, must) not run counter to the personal desires of human beings.

Aaron Gyde | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012, Volume 8, Number 3

November 2012
Euthyphro’s Dilemma and the Goodness of God

Euthyphro’s Dilemma and the Goodness of God

One of the most persistent issues in the philosophy of religion has been the origin of our concept of “moral good.”

Brendan Woods | The Dartmouth Apologia | Winter 2011,Volume 5 Issue 1

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

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