This is part of a regular ongoing series, in which I examine the history and discography of some of the best artists in the underground Christian rock scene of the…

Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s six “terrible sonnets.”

This is the first entry in what will be a regular ongoing series, in which I examine the history and discography of some of the best artists in the underground…

These chapters–“The Word and Sacraments” and “Worship and Prayer”–flow rather naturally from the previous chapters, in that we are talking about the means by which the Church performs its mission…

When His disciples asked Him how they would know when the end of the world was arriving, Christ told them, “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see…

MacQuarrie calls the third section of his book “Applied Theology,” but it would perhaps better be called “applied faith,” since, as he admits, much of the worldly outworking of theology…

Whether he intended it this way or not, MacQuarrie’s two chapters on Jesus Christ are at the physical center of Principles of Christian Theology–which is completely appropriate. Call it providence,…

In his latest book, Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted, Richard Beck argues that modern Christians should restore a belief in the forces of…

Part One of Principles of Christian Theology dealt with philosophical theology–that is, with talk about theology in general (albeit talk done from within a particular theological tradition). Part Two will…

MacQuarrie has been interested from the very beginning of Principles of Christian Theology in the ability or inability of human language to express the experiences and revelations that make up…

I bought Principles of Christian Theology in 2007, when I was working on my master’s thesis and made it my business to own as many volumes of Christian existentialist literature…

David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Simone Weil’s essay “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of…

Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour in the last of three discussions of Jedediah Purdy’s For Common Things.

Nathan Gilmour leads Michial Farmer and David Grubbs in the second of our three discussions of Jedediah Purdy’s For Common Things.

David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in the first of three discussions of Jedediah Purdy’s 1999 book For Common Things.