Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. -C.S. Lewis

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Entries Tagged as 'Church'

Pay the Preacher!

December 9th, 2007 5 Comments

Today was something of a landmark day for me.  It was the first time I had ever spoken up in a congregational meeting (for shame, I know, I know).  Interesting as I look back on the experience that I had to choose the annual budget meeting to speak up.  What was the issue?  There really [...]

Charles Hodge: An Exemplar of Thoughtful Faith, Learning, and Piety

January 22nd, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

The Presbyterian Princeton President

January 12th, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

Defined by “Not”

January 2nd, 2007 No Comments

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 [...]

Choosing Church?

December 6th, 2006 No Comments

From the Rev. Dr. J. Ligon Duncan’s recent blogpost at:  http://blog.togetherforthegospel.org/ (for those of you who are fans of Lig Duncan, Mark Dever, Al Mohler or C.J. Mahaney, you’ll love this blog…all four interact with each other on this one!). 
Belonging to the Church
by lduncan
“The question whether or not to join the church or belong to the [...]

Bonhoeffer and Wilberforce: Hearing God’s Call through Community

November 17th, 2006 No Comments

Welcome to my first-ever blog entry! 
As much as I try resist the modernist assumption that technology-as-progress represents a good in itself (devoid of all other concerns), it seems inescapable that communication through cyberspace is too common (and expected) to be ignored.  If this is one way that we can create a community of ideas, then so [...]