Thinking Christians

How should Christians understand involvement in the world? How can we be in the world, but not of it? On this episode of White Horse Inn our hosts, Michael Horton, Kim Riddlebarger, and Rod Rosenbladt explain how Christians can live in the world without becoming worldly.

Many of us have been taught that there are two levels of Christian commitment. There are those who are fully committed, engaged a full-time Christian ministry, and there is everyone else who works a secular job. This way of looking at things reflects a problem addressed by the reformers of the 16th century. On this […]

Since the 2007 release of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, the Christian intellectual sphere has reverberated with talk of disenchantment, a historical process that helped create the modern world. According to Taylor, the old enchanted realm was “the world of spirits, demons, moral forces

In the spring of 1768, Voltaire famously remarked in his work the Épître à l’Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him (Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer). Among those so inclined, this line is often quoted as one of the first modern confessions of atheism.

When Dr. Fesko chose the topic of the imagination to introduce to our church his new book, The Cathedral of Theology: Principles of Christian Dogmatics, I immediately knew I wanted to read it.

Suppose someone declares, “Christianity is not credible.” What do they mean and how should we respond to that claim? They probably mean that Christianity isn’t worthy of belief. They know there are lots of Christians, but their point is that there shouldn’t be because Christianity isn’t worthy of belief.