A Theology of Quantum Mechanics

With a scientific mindset, it can be difficult to rationalize spiritual interfaces with physical reality. By the end of this article, we should have at least a framework of reason in which to approach these questions.

Ronald Davis III | MIT et Spiritus | Fall 2018

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 2017

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 2017

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 2017

A Tale of Two Evangelicalisms: A Q&A with Randall Balmer

"Some have disavowed the label [evangelicalism], arguing that it is now “a tribal rather than a credal description.” When did this shift in how the term is understood take place?

Luke Dickens | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2018

The Peculiar Shape of Christian Identity

For Christians, personal identity is story-shaped (not abstract), derivative (not intrinsic), other-centered (not autonomous), and incomplete (not fully available to us in the here and now).

Teal McGarvey and Nick Nowalk | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2016

Chaos

With mathematics properly contextualized, I want to enliven a small section of the discipline that is relatively young called chaos theory. Specifically, I want to examine the theory with a focus on the metaphysical problem of determinism.

Taylor Parra | Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2017

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 2018

The Numinous and the Natural: Christianity and Environmentalism

The Tragedy of the Commons shows us that the destruction of the environment is an issue regarding not only how people relate to one another, but also how we relate to nature.

Jeffrey Poomkudy | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2017

Composing Liturgical Space: A Design Thesis

What if there was a way to spatially communicate the progression of feelings we experience within the different parts of liturgy?

Matthew Barley | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2016

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 2016

Insights from Professor Chuck Huff

"Do you have any particular examples from your classes where people have really thought through or wrestled with the issues of religion and science?"

Avodah Editorial Staff | St Olaf Avodah | Spring 2015

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 2017

The New Dartmouth: From Sacred to Secular

Regardless of the worldview one ascribes to, consideration of the full range of motivations for, and the ensuing effects of, the secularization of Dartmouth is required to fully understand its significance in Dartmouth’s history.

Sara Holston | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

Understanding God Through Modern Rap: Coloring Book

In this series we want to show that the increased tendency of modern rappers to reference Christian themes in their lyrics represents a desire to use the shared experience of African American Christianity as a vehicle to speak about contemporary life.

Damilare Aboaba, Gaired Jordan, and Emani Pollard | Cornell Claritas | Fall 2016

In the Beginning, [Insert Here] Created the Heavens and the Earth

In fact, as an important parallel, the vast majority of Christians in fields of theology have abandoned a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation in favor of a more symbolic and poetic account.

Collin English | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

A Restorative Response to Injustice

It is easy to look at a perpetrator and say that the problem lies uniquely in him or her. Yet I do not think Christians can do that.

Molly Richmond | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2016

Rediscovering Aristotle, Aquinas, and Classical Theism: an interview with Edward Feser

A former atheist, Dr. Feser converted back to the Catholicism of his youth after an extensive study of St. Thomas Aquinas’ thought and philosophy.

The Dartmouth Apologia | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 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 2015

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 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 2015

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

Wet Feet: Navigating the Intellectual and Practical

Long run solutions without short run help do nothing for the people who are actually suffering from systemic problems right now.

Nathan Scalise | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2015

Knowing Christ through Musical Worship

I don’t know whether this connection is deep and natural for others, but for me, it has always made sense: God and song, song and God.

Lilian Chow | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 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 2015

Persecution of Christians in North Korea: A Perspective

What’s wrong with not having to care about two dozen million people, not one of whom I had met before nor will ever meet?

Hannah Jung | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

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

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 2014

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

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

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 2013

December 2018