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Descartes(’) Remains

by Brett Williams | Apr 5, 2018 | Central Blog, History, Humanities, modernity, Philosophy, Science, Secularism

I just finished a great book – Descartes Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason. In it, NY Times best-selling author Russell Shorto retells the fascinating tale of Descartes’ remains and compares their history to the philosophical...

Billy Graham, Revivalism, and the City of Angels

by Brett Williams | Feb 22, 2018 | Central Blog, Church History, Culture, Evangelicalism, Evangelism, Fundamentalism, History, revivalism, Tradition

  Few deny that the modern American religious landscape has been shaped by revivalism. From Whitefield to Finney, Wesley to Sunday, revivalism has played a vital role in the formation of evangelicalism. In fact, one cannot understand North American evangelicalism...

Dreher on the Medieval World

by Kevin Bauder | Sep 9, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Conservatism, History, Philosophy, Theology, What We're Reading

Medievals experienced the divine as far more present in their daily lives. As it has been for most people, Christian and otherwise, throughout history, religion was everywhere, and— this is crucial— as a matter not merely of belief but of experience. In the mind of...

Jacques Barzun on Toleration

by Kevin Bauder | Jul 20, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, History, Persecution, Religious Freedom, Tolerance, What We're Reading

Toleration–allowing freedom of expression–has no logical limits. In religion it includes ritual, which is action as well as words. But does it include burning the country’s flag? Law in the United States says yes. What of behavior onstage that many...

The Closing of the Muslim Mind

by Kevin Bauder | Jul 19, 2017 | Apologetics, History, Islam, Reviews

Joel Zartman reviews the book by Robert R. Reilly. The discussion ranges from Al Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers to Christian Presuppositionalism.

In the Nick of Time

by Kevin Bauder | Jul 8, 2017 | Church History, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, History, In the Nick of Time

This week: a historical piece on the “Conservative Baptist Conflict.”
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