Book Review: Norman Wirzba’s “The Way of Love: Recovering the Heart of Christianity”
Wirzba, Norman. Way of Love: Recovering the Heart of Christianity New York: HarperOne, 2016. (238 pages + notes & index) Norman Wirzba’s most recent book, T...
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The Unintended Reformation: The Grand Conclusion (Part 10)
We now come to the conclusion of my book analysis of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation. Let me say up front that I do not think Gregory was attempting t...
The Unintended Reformation: Chapter 6–Secularizing Knowledge (Part 9) What can we say about modern education?
Brad Gregory’s sixth chapter in The Unintended Reformation is entitled, “Secularizing Knowledge.” In it, he looks at the modern American education system, parti...
The Unintended Reformation: Chapter 5–The Goods Life…Love That Money! (Part 8)
In the last two chapters in The Unintended Reformation, Brad Gregory looks at two aspects of modern life in America today: the consumeristic culture and the hig...
The Unintended Reformation: Chapter 4–“Subjectivizing Morality” (Part 7)
We now continue with our walk through of The Unintended Reformation by Brad Gregory. In this post, I’m going to take a look at chapter 4, “Subjectivizing Morali...
The Unintended Reformation (Part 6): The Government Wants to Control Religion! (Well, not really, but we seem to really want it to…)
In my last post, I commented on chapter three of The Unintended Reformation by Brad Gregory, in which he traced the historical development of Church/State relat...
The Unintended Reformation (Part 5): Chapter 3–Controlling the Churches: From Luther to Jefferson in Five Easy Steps
In my last post, I covered chapter 2 of Brad Gregory’s book, The Unintended Reformation, in which he traced a historical line from the Reformation to the 19th c...
The Unintended Reformation (Part 4): How We Got From Luther to Marx in Seven Steps–Appeals to Reason Gone Wild
In this post I am going to crystalize Brad Gregory’s historical overview from the time of the Reformation to today in seven simple steps. For this is what he do...
The Unintended Reformation (Part 3): Church Tradition, the Reformation, Philosophical Naturalism, and the Quirky Thing About Science
In my last post, I discussed how Brad Gregory, in his book The Unintended Reformation, began to make the argument that our current secular society, complete wit...
The Unintended Reformation (Part 2): How Did We Get So Secular, and Why Is Luther to Blame?
So how did the Protestant Reformation lead to our current secularized culture? How did Luther’s famous “Sola Scriptura” lead to legal battles over Christmas crè...