February 2019
March 2018
February 2018
History’s Jesus: An Exploration of Historical Analysis
Scholars have developed a number of criteria to inform an accurate reconstruction of the historical Jesus. Among Ehrman’s preferred methods are independent attestation and the principle of dissimilarity.
India Perdue | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2017
The Greater Miracle
Hume says that because experience is infallibly linked to natural reality, testimony cannot cast even a shadow of doubt on sensory information, and the two cannot epistemically oppose each other.
Hope Chang | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2016January 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
Is the Church Inherently Conservative?
I am not trying to decide once and for all if the church falls on the conservative side of the American political spectrum.
David Paiva | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2016
When in Doubt: The New Testament’s Veracity
When we say the Bible is “God-inspired,” “God-breathed” or “God’s Word” what do we mean? If it does not contain Jesus’s words, is it God’s Word? Is the New Testament verbatim of God? I thought it was.
Kelsey Waddill | The Hopkins Dialectic | Spring 2017October 2017
September 2017
A Q&A with Gary Habermas
"The basic idea here is that because Jesus was buried in Jerusalem, and that this is also where the apostolic preaching began, critics would simply need to walk over to the tomb to determine whether it was empty, or whether it contained the corpse of a crucifixion victim."
Luke Dickens | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2017
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
The Integration of Modern Psychology and the Philosophical Virtues in the Christian Worldview
A psychological professional who is truly concerned for an individual’s well-being ought to awaken them to a sense of their human dignity, to help them recognize disorders in their lives, and to accompany them along the path of healing and self-discovery.
Blake Tamez | The Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2016August 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
“Scientia Potentia Est”
Scientia potentia est, more commonly known as “knowledge is power,” is an aphorism suggesting that higher forms of knowledge correlate with greater power.
Lauren Hall | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2017January 2017
December 2016
August 2016
April 2016
March 2016
December 2015
October 2015
July 2015
May 2015
A House Built on Sand: Spirituality and Intellectual Honesty
College can be a great place to seek a faith that is both communal and individual, brought on by sincere reflection rather than indoctrination.
Pieter Hoekstra | Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015
Confession as Freedom
I would suggest that, logically, those who are the most enslaved are those who don’t even know that they’re slaves.
Nathan Otey | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
Squirming in the Pew: A Confession
The issue is that we, as post-Emergent Church Worshipers, seem to view corporate worship as dependent upon our emotional response to it.
Brynn Elliot | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2014
Mathematizing the Mind
A history of uncertainty in the field of Mathematics reveals ways we might scrutinize our own philosophies and faiths through a conventionally “rational” lens.
Hong Suh | The Claremont Ekklesia | Spring 2015April 2015
December 2014
October 2014
Why Apologetics? An interview with David Skeel
Rather than assuming that most people hold loosely Christian views, or trying to demonstrate that non-Christian views have no foundation, I focus on how Christianity explains the world as we actually experience it.
Nathaniel Schmucker | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014
Rebellion Against the Bible?
There are four general strains of reasoning that argue for the reliability of the Bible: internal consistency, archaeological evidence, manuscript evidence, and logical extrapolation from history.
Dabin Hwang | The Harvard Ichthus | Spring 2013September 2014
A Response to James Hunter’s To Change the World
While Hunter asserts that Christians should not be trying to change the world, there is nuance, for he does not advocate or condone passivity.
Ryan Bouton | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014
The Lost Letters
Here lies a pair of letters reported to have been torn from a devil’s handbook. These writings were composed by the crafty demon known as Screwtape, who makes his unforgettable debut in The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. These letters, like the ones before them, shed light on the enigmatic essence of human nature, as […]
Olugbenga Joseph | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2014
On God and Suffering
Things become distorted when we are suffering, and it takes an understanding of something bigger than ourselves to realign life’s dimensions again.
Monica Perez and Michael Robinson | The Brown & RISD Cornerstone | 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
July 2014
St. Olaf College: Lutheran Identity in an Age of Pluralism
According to its mission statement, St. Olaf encourages students “to be seekers of truth, leading lives of unselfish service to others; and it challenges them to be responsible and knowledgeable citizens of the world.”
Darrell Jodock | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2014
Scope of Scientific Inquiry
The qualifications of scientific knowledge will aid us in seeing to what extent science is capable of speaking what is true about the reality, and in turn, concerning what is true about religion.
Mu Young Jeong | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2014
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 2014June 2014
Christianity and the Pursuit of Happiness
From both a Christian angle and a humanist angle, I think happiness is not something we should be striving or aspiring towards, or viewing as the truth.
Christina Kellar | Swarthmore Peripateo |
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 2014May 2014
St. Olaf Launches “Avodah”
“Avodah” is a Hebrew word that means both work and worship, and it represents the desire of the journal’s staff to integrate their work as students — learning to be critical thinkers — with honoring God.
| |
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
Finding Oneself Beyond the Empirical Fence
But wouldn’t everybody act more or less the same if there were no religion and instead most of the same rules were held on a purely secular basis?
Nicholas Zahorodny | Swarthmore Peripateo | Fall 2013
Poetry and the Redemption Story
We are not academics searching to excavate truth from a divine treatise. Instead we are beings intimately woven into a poem in which God tenderly shows us what to love, how to love, and why we love.
Siqi Cao | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Spring 2014
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 2012March 2014
February 2014
Faith and Reason
Truth, the great 13th century philosopher Thomas Aquinas insisted, can only ever be one.
Christopher Hauser | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012
God Contra Capital
In order to break the graven image of Capital, it will be necessary, as I will argue, to transform its institutions in accord with the will of the divine.
Kelly Maeshiro | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2013