In Defense of Christian Philosophy: A Response to Peter Leithart

Philosophy is some optional extra that we can take or leave when doing theology. All of us bring extra-biblical concepts to our study of the biblical text; the only question is whether they are concepts subordinated to the service of reality.

Three Cheers for Wisdom: Clarifications Contra Critics

Last week, I wrote a brief summary of our objections (here at Davenant) to “Christian worldview” thinking, and why we prefer the language of “wisdom” instead. The post was in many ways an experiment to see whether it’s possible to make a big-picture argument, about big and controversial concepts, in roughly 1,500 words. I’m tempted […]

Reason Diabolical, Reason Divine: Melanchthon on Philosophy, Humanism and Scripture

  This article appeared in Volume II, Issue 4 of Ad Fontes.