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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
February 2016
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 2014August 2014
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
Screwtape on Prefrosh
Unseat the desire for truth in your patient and replace it with a desire for academic respect, and your job is half done.
Judith Huang | The Harvard Ichthus | Summer 2011 - Special issue for the incoming class of 2015
The Cosmic Import of Marriage
The Bible is bookended by weddings.
Markus Boesl | The Yale Logos | Fall 2013July 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
Cantor’s Theorem and Jesu
The Christological claim that Jesus is both human and divine at the same time is analogous to the claim that Jesus is both finite and infinite.
Drew Voight | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2014May 2014
UC Berkeley’s TAUG Hosts Cafe Night
"Each Cafe Night is based on the theme of the journal. This semester's Cafe Night was called "To Know in Part" because the theme of our Spring 2014 issue is Science and Faith."
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A Postmodern Unity
It is not that of two people who describe their experience with God slightly differently, one must be in error. Rather, the nature of one’s experience with God will be different.
David Paiva | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013
A Response to Ross Douthat’s Bad Religion
Adopting C.S. Lewis’ concept of love’s responsibility, Ross Douthat harshly criticizes American Christianity in hopes of encouraging a stronger future.
Elena Zinski | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
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 2013December 2013
November 2013
What is a “Christian” Social Ethics?
The communal nature of Jesus’ life and work must be considered when attempting to define the Christian character of a social ethic.
Daniel Bell | The Yale Logos | Winter 2012
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 2012September 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
Becoming Oneself: C.S. Lewis’ Allegory of the Afterlife
Accepting dignity rather than attempting to create it requires faith, for we must trust that what God has designed us to be is greater than anything we could mold ourselves into.
Macy Ferguson | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2013August 2013
July 2013
January 2013
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
Diligent Seeker
I knew the theological answer: if God loved me enough to die on the cross for me, then surely my worship meant a great deal to him. But there was a great disconnect between my mind and my heart.
Shana Dorsey | The Williams Telos | Issue 8, Fall 2012