Sublime

In Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural, the new president appealed, eloquently but theoretically, to “the better angels of our nature.” John Lewis is a better angel. The American present and future may in many ways hinge on the extent to which the rest of us can draw lessons from his example.

The most influential medieval apologist of Western Christendom was its most influential theologian: Thomas Aquinas.

Xavier, a Spanish monk, was one of the seven original Jesuits in the order founded by his friend Ignatius Loyola. Xavier died in 1552.

He proclaimed himself a strong Calvinist and delighted to discuss Reformed theology. I eventually discovered that he was having sex outside his marriage. But he was not worried about it; he was eternally secure in Christ. I

Some of the most recognizable evidential apologists of our time include John Warwick Montgomery

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In one of his lectures, Robert Thurman, a Buddhist scholar, disciple of the Dalai Lama, and director of Tibet House in New York City

Lewis reminds us that God wants to knock out the walls of the temples we build for Him because He desires to give us more of Himself. Lewis wrote, more than once, that he wanted God, not his idea of God.

Two divergent views of sanctification arose within the movement, each with its own distinct methodological target in the task of counseling. The first view, represented by Adams, targeted observable, habituated behaviors in seeking to bring about change. In contrast, the second view, represented by Powlison and the large majority of biblical counse