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Identity-ing: Embracing Identity in Flux
What do we do when we find - suddenly or gradually, in relatively trivial things like boba or in weightier things - that we are not who we used to be, or we are not who others think we are?
Liz Cooledge Jenkins | Stanford Vox Clara | Fall 2018
Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home by Pope Francis
The wide scope of topics that this document covers conveys the fact that we do not live in isolation; all of our actions subsequently influence others; environmentalism relates to the economy as much as it does to planting trees.
Anne Marie Crinnion | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017September 2018
Justice in Pain, Suffering, and Silence
Throughout Martin Scorsese's Silence, we begin to question why God allows pain for even those seeking to work for God or in the very least let us hear His voice instead of just silence.
Bryan Lee | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2018
Who is God?
The Old Testament is a combination of books that predict, point to, and await the arrival of God in the flesh, and the New Testament is the documentation of God’s appearance and life on earth.
Armen Festekjian | | Fall 2017August 2018
Against (Our Own) Heresies
[Heresy] starts with a narrow selective reading of scripture that is then over-emphasized and serves as a tangential point for one’s own desires.
Erik Johnson | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2018
An Interview with Jonathan Moo
"I think the reason Christians care for creation can be summarized by loving God and loving our neighbor, and in the process discovering who we were created to be."
Siobhan McDonough | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2017July 2018
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March 2018
Who Do You Say That I Am? – Pseudo-Dionysius on the Divine Names
In brief, the problem of understanding the divine names is the problem of discovering how a superhuman significance could possibly dwell within a language that has developed squarely within the boundary lines of human realities and human concerns.
Nicholas Zahorodny | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2015
Consider Creation
As both a Christian and a long-time lover of nature, this article will seek to present why Christians should promote environmental stewardship.
Marta Galambos | Cal Poly Aletheia | Spring 2018January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
Discerning Fact from Fiction: Christianity’s Middle Eastern Heritage
First, the Western-Christian imagination has in many ways hijacked the Jesus story, and changed it into a distinctly Western narrative that deviates from the history and truth of the real biblical setting.
Sharidan Russell | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2016
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 2016September 2017
August 2017
Postmodernism and the Paradox of Tolerance
Postmodernism conflates truth and personhood, and in doing so confines the person to a state of perpetual insecurity and vulnerability. It is this fear of violence that prevents modern persons from recognizing the inherent dignity of their peers.
Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2017
Why States Fail: Lessons from Augustine
If we can ascertain our nature, we can begin to understand what makes societies perpetually problematic.
Jeffrey Poomkudy | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2017June 2017
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November 2016
October 2016
June 2016
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
On the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
In studying historical events of antiquity, a historian must deal with the data at hand and attempt to ascertain the truth of a matter with varying degrees of certainty.
Sam Paek | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2016
Approaching a Christocentric View of Wealth
To the casual onlooker skeptical of the Catholic Church’s wealth, the concern is not how beautiful their churches are, but the cost at which they were built.
Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015May 2016
Quasars, Pulsars, Black Holes, and God
In addition to the idea of causality, the seemingly inexplicable order and structure of the universe puzzled me.
Isaac Bautista | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2015
Is Genesis 1 Really About Creationism?
A quick confession: I used to be really, really creationist.
Colin Aitken | MIT et Spiritus | Spring 2016April 2016
A Literature Survey of the Kierkegaardian Concept of “Neighbor Love”
[Kierkegaard's] controversial claim has been the subject of extensive academic debate, since preferential love is such an inherent human experience.
Emmanuel Hui | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2015
Medieval and Modern Meet: Advent
As a Christian scholar, I read the medieval texts that are my primary area of study with a curious double vision.
Kathryn Mogk | University of Minnesota Between Cities | Spring 2016
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
Edwards and Thoreau: Typologies of Lakes
In composing their accounts of lakes, Jonathan Edwards and Henry David Thoreau drew from different sources and operated out of clashing ideological frameworks.
Sarah Boss | The Wheaton Pub | Fall 2015March 2016
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July 2015
June 2015
Kyrios Christos: The Lordship of Jesus Christ Today
Profession of a “lord” is not merely religious language for adoration on some spiritual plane; it is also a matter of social and political protest.
Michael F. Bird | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
And He Began to Teach Them Many Things
An interview with Professor Matthew Harrison, who previously wrote an article called "Invited to Care" about his calling to teach mathematics to those in prison.
Elizabeth Jean-Marie | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2015March 2015
February 2015
December 2014
The Gift of Confession
The desire to confess may seem counter-intuitive. Obviously the seeker-sensitive movement assumed this was the last thing non-Christians wanted to do.
James K. A. Smith | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
Tweeting Indulgences
We stand as careful guardians of church practice, not as nostalgic Luddites, when we say that issuing a plenary indulgence to those who follow an event over social media deserves a cautious examination.
Michael Toy | Princeton Revisions | Fall 2013
Does God Play Dice?
How could God (knowingly, deliberately) create a process that brings about outcomes that He Himself does not know and cannot predict?
Stephen Mackereth | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014October 2014
September 2014
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
Debunking Galileo’s Science v. Faith Controversy
Despite the end result of unresolved dispute, both the Church and Galileo approached every stage of the conflict with an understanding that both science and faith contained indisputable truths.
Macy Ferguson | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014