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The Importance of Cultural Liturgies

Arthur Hunt
Dec 10, 2021
You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. — Augustine As James K. A. Smith reminds us in You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit , Augustine’s prayer reveals several aspects about the human condition. First, human beings are made by and for the...

Reckoning with Tech

Arthur Hunt
Sep 21, 2021
“The doctrine of last things certainly has to reckon with all these things .” [1] The above quote comes from an interesting little paragraph in Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics , “the concluding high point” of four centuries of Dutch Reformed reflection. [2] By “these things,” Bavinck means the...

Nature and Apologetics

Arthur Hunt
Mar 30, 2021
Previously, we examined the way Lewis approaches the law of nature in Mere Christianity . From there, we saw how much of this natural law apologetic resonates with a classical Reformed conception of general revelation and the covenant of works. We now return to Mere Christianity to uncover some...

The Echo of the Imago Dei

Arthur Hunt
Mar 10, 2021
In our last post , we made four observations regarding how Lewis goes about establishing the law of human nature in the first section of Mere Christianity . We should return to these observations and make some additional comments on how they might be applied to apologetics. However, it first must...

Lewis and the Moral Law

Arthur Hunt
Feb 23, 2021
Theologians who now write on natural law often begin by first acknowledging the long dry spell during the twentieth century. They cite that Reformed-minded scholars were either distrustful or even hostile to the theory that there was a knowable system of right and wrong held in common by all human...

Oikos: A Case for Reviving the Household Economy

Arthur Hunt
Jan 10, 2012
One of the more effective strategies in converting an Anabaptist to a Pedobaptist is to have him examine the ancient term oikos or "household." It certainly worked in my case. I poured over literature handed to me by kind elders and teachers who not only wanted me to feel at home in a new...

Oikos: A Case for Reviving the Household Economy

Arthur Hunt
Jan 10, 2012
One of the more effective strategies in converting an Anabaptist to a Pedobaptist is to have him examine the ancient term oikos or "household." It certainly worked in my case. I poured over literature handed to me by kind elders and teachers who not only wanted me to feel at home in a new...