The Gospel & Cultural Identity
by Jackson Watts Recently I was perusing an older edition of Integrity, the theological journal which the Commission for Theological Integrity occasionally publishes (back issues available in PDF form here). I especially enjoyed reading an article written by Dr. Jeff Turnbough on culture as a missiological concept. Turnbough…
Arminianism & the Rise of Secularism?
by W. Jackson Watts Recently I’ve been lumbering through Charles Taylor’s widely discussed book, A Secular Age. Published in 2007 by Harvard’s Belknap Press, this dense, 800+ pager (with endnotes) is an expanded presentation of the material Taylor originally gave for the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University…
Bumper Sticker Theology
by Randy Corn Does the name Piotr Mledozeniec ring a bell? If you are anything like me, it doesn’t, but I would bet you have seen some of his work. Mr. Mledozeniec is a Polish graphic designer who came up with a design for a traveling exhibit from…
On C.S. Lewis & Chronological Snobbery
by Matthew Pinson In my courses at Welch College, I often introduce my students to C. S. Lewis’s comments on “chronological snobbery.” Lewis described himself before he became a Christian, when he was still an atheist, as a chronological snob. He defined chronological snobbery as the “uncritical acceptance…