Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Church-related liberal arts colleges historically tack to the left and eventually separate from their founding denominations.  James Burtchaell, a Catholic scholar and author of The Dying of the Light:  The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1998), has outlined the way in which this usually takes place.  How [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]