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Insights on Reforming Fundamentalism: 6

[continued from this post] 6) Defining Evangelicalism: Open or Closed? Another issue the book raised in my thinking relates to evangelical identity. Should we define evangelicalism by what it is for or what it is...

July 30, 2010No Comments

Insights from Reforming Fundamentalism: 3-5

3) Inerrancy as a battle front I was continually struck by the role that the doctrine of biblical inerrancy has played in separating fundamentalists and evangelicals from various other movements. This doctrine is not merely...

July 24, 20102 Comments

Insights from Reforming Fundamentalism: 1-2

Over the past several weeks I’ve been giving a slow and thoughtful read to George Marsden’s Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism (Eerdmans 1987), which is a history of the controversial first two...

July 22, 20101 Comment

What was the American Revolution?

This past February I got to give a lecture to some middle schoolers at a Christian school on a topic of my choice within the field of history. I chose to discuss the founding period...

June 15, 2010No Comments

Reflections on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Picking up on my last post, one thing I have enjoyed about our walks to the Lincoln Memorial is that it has given me the opportunity to meditate more closely on the text of Lincoln’s...

August 18, 2009No Comments

Scattered Thoughts on Lincoln, Ellis, Racism, and the Cross

Several times since moving to D.C. Esther and I have walked down to the Lincoln Memorial. Each time I take the time to read the speeches that are etched in the walls, the Gettysburg Address...

August 18, 2009No Comments

George Washington

My study this summer took a very unexpected turn into American political history, but the phase is wearing off. In a final burst of interest, I finished off Ellis’ Founding Brothers this morning (which is...

July 21, 20092 Comments

Conclusions on Madison as President

I received an email after my last post suggesting that although Madison’s accomplishments in the drafting and ratification of the Constitution are often noted by historians, his service to our country as President is often...

July 14, 2009No Comments

Ketcham’s Madison biography and Ellis’ Founding Brothers

In my continued venture into American political history, I have been working my way through Ralph Ketcham’s biography of James Madison. I have really enjoyed it and learned a lot from it. In particular, I...

July 9, 2009No Comments