Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Son of Westminster’s blogpost the other day on David Dockery and his blog interview on faith and learning in the Christian college inspired me to post something in the same vein, although what follows here is just a bit older by comparison.  Noah Porter, president of Yale in the late nineteenth century, delivered the keynote address at [...]

Dr. Charles Hodge (1797-1878), principal at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1851-1878, was one of the first evangelicals to go to battle against the naturalism inherent in Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.  Although the Civil War preoccupied American thinkers and commentators in the years immediately following the publishing of Darwin’s book in 1859, academic debate began soon after [...]

My employer has graciously allowed me to use this month exclusively for dissertation writing, a gift for which I am truly grateful.  The title is “Citizen-Formation, the Common Good, and American Higher Education during the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, 1880-1930,” and in it I explore the ways in which the contours of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the [...]

Although I’m not a usually a fan posting random thoughts just for the sake of having a post (as some of my brothers are want to do…posts about aerobies in trees and things like that), I did have a random thought the other day that I decided was worth sharing.  A couple days ago I [...]