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“The First Fair Trial”: The Genealogy of the Separation of Church and State
This article by Pastor Steven Wedgeworth appeared in the March issue of our Ad Fontes magazine. To subscribe to receive full issues in your inbox, click here. Triumphalism is a perennial danger to Christian communities, and it shows up in a wide variety of places, sometimes in the most curious ways. For Protestant traditions, one particularly ironic location of…
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Pearl and Leaven: The Gospel Church as Institute and Organism
This article by Jordan J. Ballor appeared in the March issue of our Ad Fontes magazine. To subscribe to receive full issues in your inbox, click here. A hallmark of neo-Calvinist thinking about the church in the nineteenth century and beyond is the distinction between the church understood as an institution and as an organism. The Dutch theologian and…
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EXCERPT FROM “JESUS AND PACIFISM”: THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST
This article by Andrew Fulford appeared in the April issue of Ad Fontes magazine. This is an edited version of a section from the first title in a new series: the Davenant Guides. To subscribe to receive full issues in your inbox, click here. PART 4: THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST At last we come to the matter at hand,…
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Natural Theology and Reformed Orthodoxy (by David Haines)
This article by David Haines appeared in the May issue of Ad Fontes magazine. To subscribe to receive full issues in your inbox, click here. Introduction The last century has seen quite a bit of discussion amongst Protestants concerning the orthodoxy of Natural Theology. Some recent thinkers, such as Karl Barth and Cornelius Van Til, have, either explicitly or…
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How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria (and Mary, and Mary, and Elizabeth)? Part II
This article by Sean Morris appeared in the May issue of Ad Fontes magazine. To subscribe to receive full issues in your inbox, click here. How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria (and Mary, and Mary, and Elizabeth)? Part II by Sean G. Morris The first part of this article appeared in the November, 2016 issue of Ad…
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Protestant Ecclesiology Amidst Contemporary Political Theologies
By Jake Meador This article appeared in the 10th issue of Ad Fontes magazine. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the day that I actually began to understand some of what Reformed theology means on a day-to-day basis. I was a sophomore in college, living near campus in a small one bedroom apartment by myself. One…
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Lying and Christian Ethics (Tollefsen), Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (Griffiths): Review by Kelby Carlson
Everybody lies. So says Dr. House. But he is not the only one to point out this obvious, uncomfortable fact. In recent years, philosophical literature has given increased attention to the lie. In particular, Christians have given renewed attention to the question of lying. Paul Griffiths and Christopher O. Tollefsen—advocates of two very different…
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The Great Commission and the Great Game
By Brian J. Auten I’ll begin by asserting that intelligence ethics is in the midst of its awkward teenage years. The speciality spent its schoolyard days in the post 9/11 and Second Iraq War debate over the morality of torture and enhanced interrogation, leading to breakthrough US and UK work on “just intelligence,” a…
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JESUS AND PACIFISM: A CORRESPONDENCE (PT. I)
MYLES WERNTZ AND ANDREW FULFORD Following the publication of Andrew Fulford’s Jesus and Pacifism: An Exegetical and Historical Examination, Dr. Myles Werntz contacted Fulford with the proposal that the two of them undertake a correspondence on the subject. Dr. Werntz is the T.B. Maston Chair of Christian Ethics at Logsdon Seminary at Hardin-Simmons University. A…
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JESUS AND PACIFISM: A CORRESPONDENCE (PT. II)
MYLES WERNTZ AND ANDREW FULFORD Following the publication of Andrew Fulford’s Jesus and Pacifism: An Exegetical and Historical Examination, Dr. Myles Werntz contacted Fulford with the proposal that the two of them undertake a correspondence on the subject. Dr. Werntz is the T.B. Maston Chair of Christian Ethics at Logsdon Seminary at Hardin-Simmons University. A…
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