Dr. Phillip Cary is professor of philosophy and chair of his department at Eastern University in Pennsylvania. He’s the author of Good News for Anxious Christians (Brazos, 2022) and The Nicene Creed (Lexham, 2023). This interview has been edited for length and flow. Listen to an extended version online at modernreformation.org/already. Phil, this issue of […]
Friday, 01 September, 2023 by Brannon Ellis, Phillip Cary
Many Modern Reformation readers are familiar with the theological language of the “already” versus the “not yet.” When the authors of the Bible described salvation, they portrayed it as a foretaste of a redemption we will fully receive at the final judgment and consummation of all things. Ever since God promised that the Seed of […]
Friday, 01 September, 2023 by Brannon Ellis
Extended Audio Version Modern Reformation Magazine · An Extended Interview With Phil Cary From Our Issue On The Already Dr. Phillip Cary is professor of philosophy and chair of his department at Eastern University. He’s author of Good News for Anxious Christians (Brazos, 2022) and The Nicene Creed (Lexham, 2023). This is an extended version […]
Monday, 07 August, 2023 by Brannon Ellis, Phillip Cary
Jens Zimmermann is the J. I. Packer Professor of Theology and director of the Houston Centre for Humanity and the Common Good at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He’s written or edited numerous works, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christian Humanism (Oxford, 2019) and Incarnational Humanism: A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the World […]
Monday, 03 July, 2023 by Brannon Ellis, Jens Zimmermann
Where are you? Maybe sitting on your couch at home or looking at your phone on a walk. But what if we try to get more specific? Where are you, your self—the unique location of your personal consciousness and agency? If we know our Bibles, we might point to our chests and say we’re our […]
Monday, 03 July, 2023 by Brannon Ellis
Extended Audio Version Modern Reformation Magazine · An Extended Interview with Jens Zimmerman from Our Embodiment and Technology Issue Jens Zimmermann is J.I. Packer Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, as well as Director for the College’s Houston Centre for Humanity and the Common Good. This is an extended version of my interview […]
Wednesday, 07 June, 2023 by Brannon Ellis, Jens Zimmermann
Spanish and Portuguese are close siblings. Both descended from Latin and developed alongside one another on the Iberian Peninsula in relative isolation from their closest European neighbors. Spanish and Portuguese thus have what linguists call a “high degree of mutual intelligibility.”[1] If a person from Spain is speaking to a person from Portugal, much of […]
Monday, 01 May, 2023 by Brannon Ellis
The Marburg Colloquy (1529) may have been the best chance the Reformation ever had to reconcile the early German Lutheran and Swiss Reformed parties into a doctrinally unified Protestantism. Luther, Zwingli, and other leading voices on both sides were in attendance. As expected, the greatest point of contention at the conference was the Lord’s Supper. […]
Monday, 01 May, 2023 by Brannon Ellis
Poetry may be the sharpest tool of human self-awareness ever invented. Whether wielded as an ax or a scalpel, poetry carves with compact lucidity, revealing ourselves to ourselves like nothing else. This is biblical. Not just in the sense that fully one-third of the Bible is poetry, but in the sense that from the start, […]
Wednesday, 01 March, 2023 by Brannon Ellis
In all my theological study, I’ve never come across a better summary of the paradox of fallen human nature than Francis Schaeffer’s phrase “glorious ruin”: We are glorious because we were created by God for the noble purpose of being His image bearers; yet we are ruins because sin has marred the divine image we […]
Wednesday, 01 March, 2023 by Brannon Ellis
I remember being introduced to the articulate and passionate gospel work of Modern Reformation and White Horse Inn while at college. It was a formative time for my faith, which I had only recently begun to take seriously. Michael Horton and crew helped me discover the beautiful truth of the reformational gospel—so much so that […]
Sunday, 01 January, 2023 by Brannon Ellis