Religion and the Postmodern Student
For this semester I will be offering my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. By the second week…
For this semester I will be offering my reflections on an introductory, freshmen-level course on western core texts that I am teaching. By the second week…
God and Government: Martin Luther's Political Thought. Jarrett A. Carty. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. These are good times for Luther scholars, or indeed…
The Protestant Reformation has been cited by scholars of European history as contributing to the rise of nationalism, individualism, capitalism, and secularism but not to the development…
Eric Voegelin's treatment of Martin Luther in the History of Political Ideas (henceforth History; page references when not otherwise noted are to vol. IV of the History)…
However luminous the thought of Eric Voegelin may be as a whole, any sensitive reader of his writings on Luther and on the Reformation purportedly inaugurated by…
The very life of Martin Luther (1483-1546) manifested turbulence, over and over. From his troubled youth in Saxony (Erikson, 1958/1962), through his contretemps against the Roman Catholic…
The Theological Origins of Modernity. Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. One of the most substantial contributions to the discussion about the nature…