A version of this article appeared in the March 2011 edition of The Lutheran Witness. “Where [Moses] gives the commandments, we are not to follow him except so far as he agrees with the natural law.”~ Martin Luther (AE 35:173) Martin Luther’s penchant for provocative exclamations is well known. It may nevertheless seem especially shocking […]
Friday, 20 May, 2016 by Korey D. Maas
Christianity fell out of intellectual favor during the Enlightenment in large part because Rationalist and Empiricist critics charged it with being incompatible with all reason and evidence. At the time, sadly, the church as a whole did less than a stellar job of responding to such charges. But a funny thing happened on the way […]
Friday, 29 February, 2008 by Korey D. Maas
Thirty-five years since the publication of Sydney Ahlstrom's award-winning (and shelf-bending) A Religious History of the American People, which persuasively suggested that Puritanism is the leitmotif of America's religious history, George McKenna has upped the ante. In fewer pages, but with no less persuasive force, he builds the case for reading not only the country's […]
Friday, 29 February, 2008 by Korey D. Maas
April came through the coffeehouse door, bleary-eyed from an obviously late night. She muttered an order, rummaged through her purse for coins, and collapsed on the couch. “So,” she asked bluntly, “you make any New Year’s resolutions?” Tony scratched his stubbled chin—he, too, had apparently had a late night—and, not even looking up from his […]
Wednesday, 30 May, 2007 by Korey D. Maas
Thoughtful new candidates for church membership might wonder about it. Skeptical undergraduates are fond of mentioning it. And to the smartly dressed folks who ring your doorbell with complimentary copies of Watchtower and Awake!, it is something of a mantra: "The word 'Trinity' is not in the Bible." And indeed it is not. How, then, […]
Tuesday, 15 May, 2007 by Korey D. Maas