Archive for the ‘Ecclesiology’ Category

January 7, 2010 4

Catholics and Anglicans: Choosing Sides?

By Kenny Gradert in Ecclesiology

During my time as an exchange student at Oxford University, I decided to take a temporary step away from my reformed denomination and attend an Anglican church. I tried several out, had some brief relapses with a Russian Orthodox congregation and a Catholic Latin mass (I’m a sucker for the foreign languages), and eventually discovered [...]

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September 23, 2009 0

Excerpt from “The Politics of Pilgrimage”

By Robert Minto in Ecclesiology, Motivation, Patriotism, Politics

The following is an excerpt from a paper (The Politics of Pilgrimage) that I’ll be presenting at Wheaton this Saturday. Most of the paper is literary criticism, but this one section sets the stage for the theme I tease out of the literature I engage—pilgrimage as an interpretive category for the Christian life.
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May 29, 2009 1

Emerson’s “American Scholar” & Christian Thinking

By Robert Minto in Ecclesiology, Scholarship

“The American Scholar” is one of R.W. Emerson’s most famous essays. Originally, it was an address to the Phi Beta Kappa society at Cambridge (Mass.), but its importance, retrospectively, has seemed to some to far outweigh its occasional purpose. It has been called “The Declaration of Independence of American Letters.” What struck me, however, as [...]

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