Finding Freedom in Constraint

Some non-Christians are often shocked at how incredibly limiting these principles seem, yet they fail to recognize how much we agree with them on this point.

Marcos Martinez | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2014

A Simple Proposition

How did I know that everyone and everything I’d ever laid eyes on wasn’t just a projection of my own subconscious imagination?

John Nystrom | The Cornell Claritas |

A Defense of the Argument from Motion

When I was first introduced to St. Thomas Aquinas’ Five Ways, I was unimpressed. I was a junior attending Catholic high school, and, at the time, I did not believe in God.

Greg Brown | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014

Why Study Theology?

An understanding of different religions is important in a world where theological beliefs enter into the political field on a regular basis.

Sara Holston | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

Responding to a Mother’s Schizophrenia

My mother is schizophrenic. During her moments of irrationality, I am tempted to curse God for inflicting her with such an illness.

Anonymous | Princeton Revisions | Spring 2009

Christianity and Personality: Looking Past Myers-Briggs

The societal struggle to define the proper relationship between logical thought and passionate feeling within the human cognitive process is a recurring topic of discourse.

Jake Casale | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

Subsidiarity, Solidarity, and Social Teaching: A Catholic Perspective on Political Economy

In a statement echoed by President Obama, Francis laments the condition of a socioeconomic order in which “it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points.”

Nicholas Zahorodny | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014

Intelligence and Dogma: A Letter from a Sheep

One study found that, even when controlling for sex, race, education, earnings, and religion, more intelligent children are significantly more likely to grow up to be atheist seven years later.

Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013

The Crownless Again Shall Be King

We believe that the Christian faith can contribute much to an academic life. We’re also convinced that the ideas and diversity of a university can enrich the life of faith.

The Columbia Crown & Cross Editorial Board | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2014

The Pain of Privilege

Because of this privilege, there are generally two ways Christians at Berkeley come to grips with this reality: the path characterized by guilt and the path characterized by obligation.

David Park | UC Berkeley TAUG | Fall 2013

The Indispensable Image: Is the Church Really Necessary?

The question that haunts these chapters is: how will the nations come to know the one true God? Will it be through the futility of idols, or through the faithfulness of Israel?

Nick Nowalk | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013

Faith and Reason

Truth, the great 13th century philosopher Thomas Aquinas insisted, can only ever be one.

Christopher Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012

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

A Reflection on the Ontological Argument

Wrapping our heads around the idea that “to exist is better than to not exist” is critical to our faith.

Charles Min | Princeton Revisions | December 2013

A Response to Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason

Thomas Paine, a famed Revolutionary political activist and Founding Father, is also remembered for his attempts to expose Christianity as a fraud in his pamphlet Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology.

Suiwen Liang | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012

The Divine Attributes: Why an Imperfect God Just Won’t Do

Yoram Hazony’s version of apophaticism restricts theists to a kind of fideism, wherein our rational concept “God,” a human construct, is radically divorced from the subject of our faith, the non-conceptual, personal God. The result is confused, even contradictory.

Chris Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2013

Christian Materialism in Philosophy of Mind: Combining the Worldviews of Freud and Lewis

If there is a soul, why do mental states have a gradient quality? Why do animals have mental states approaching the same type as human beings?

Jordan Monge | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2012

A Lament for Skepticism

It seems to be a common assumption that religious believers are somehow irrational for holding the beliefs that they do. The claim, simply put, is that there just isn’t enough (or any) convincing evidence for the truth of many Christian beliefs, such as the belief in God, especially in light of the discoveries of modern science.

Enoch Kuo | Princeton Revisions | Summer 2013

On Mystical Obedience

You’re telling me that God’s commands are not burdensome while I’m struggling to go even half of a day without breaking one? How can you say that his commands are not burdensome when our desires and our wills conflict with his commands?

Andrew Kim | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2013 Volume II Issue II

Things Worthy to Be Loved

What motivates us anyway? Why ought we to take ownership of our education and explore these “things worthy to be loved”?

Sang Lee | Princeton Revisions |

When Things Stop Making Sense

At the very least, I hope to convince you that the philosophy of materialism is not at all obvious, and should not be accepted unquestioningly. After all, why should electrons go whizzing around subject to mysterious mathematical laws?

Stephen Mackereth | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012, Volume 8, Number 3

Christianity and Feminism: A Look into the Work of Mary Astell

The foundation of Mary Astell's argument was the concept that it was men, not God, nor women themselves, who made women inferior. In a world that was constantly arguing for the natural inferiority of women, this was a radical idea.

Steffi Ostrowski | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2013, Volume 7, Issue 2

Why Ask Why?

It is not my point to argue here, only to ask. Is Christianity a philosophical system? Or is it a way of life? Both? Or something else altogether?

Kelly Maeshiro | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012, Volume 8, Number 3

The Story of Peripateo in the Swarthmore Gazette

Founding members discuss Peripateo, a new journal of Christian discourse and artwork at Swarthmore College. Hanna Lehmann '13, Editor-in-Chief, adds, "Through the publication, we aspire to think critically and struggle with ideas of faith, reason, and truth.”

| The Swarthmore Daily Gazette |

On the Trinitarian God Friendship and the Wonder of Creation interview

On the Trinitarian God, Friendship and the Wonder of Creation – An Interview with Father James V. Schall

"You have taught college undergraduates for many years. What are the basic questions of meaning and purpose that every liberal arts student should consider?"

Christopher Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012, Volume 7, Issue 1

Aquinas on Everyday Emotions

As we understand ourselves and see extreme emotions in the light of many everyday impulses, we need to cultivate emotions that align with our intellect, reason, and that most fundamental desire, the desire that God implemented within us for Himself.

David Nolan | The Williams Telos | The Williams Telos, Fall 2012, Issue 8

Whom Are We Friends with and Why?

As the ancient philosophers recognized the ease with which we can settle for less from our relationships, the current cultural context challenges us, diverts us from what it means to have a true friend and be one.

Hannah Jung | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012, Volume 7, Issue 1

On Reason in Milton’s Paradise Lost and John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet XIV” – Theologies on Agency in Christian Faith

Milton states, “reason is but choosing”; reason depends on a person’s free will to be utilized for either man’s pleasure, or God’s glory.

Trina Hyun | The UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 1, Spring 2012

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

Is Anything Worth Believing In? A Review of a Conversation with John Lennox

God could have easily made a universe in which bad things didn’t happen. However, Lennox argues that “the one thing you will not get in an automated, robotic, computerized universe is love, relationship, and so on... In order to have the possibility of love or relationship, you must create the possibility of choice.”

Sarah Banks | The UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 01, Spring 2012

Mustard Seed Faith

Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon which describes our tendency to seek out information that confirms our opinions and beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts what we believe. I take a lot more time on each page when I’m reading C.S. Lewis compared to Richard Dawkins.

Andy Morgosh | The Williams Telos | Spring 2012

Athens, Amherst and Jerusalem

If it is true that reason and faith are inherently at odds, it seems strange that so much of the story of higher education in the west is essentially the story of Christians creating institutions for the rigorous study of philosophy, theology, and the humanities.

Prof. Craig Nicolson | Five College Slant | Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2012

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