Bruce Baugus

I’ve been doing a little reading in Origen’s On First Principles today (written sometime before 225). It’s a scandalous work on several counts, but is likely the first attempt at a…

It seems as though some version of speech act theory–the rather simple but significant observation that we use words to do things–pokes out from under every stone in evangelical discussions…

In our circles, historian Philip Jenkins appears to be best known for his work on global Christianity, beginning with Next Christendom (Oxford, 2002; 3d edition, 2011–now part of his Future of…

China may be emerging as another global center of Reformed faith and practice. If so, East Asia would seem to be well on its way to becoming the heartland of…

Offline eighteen days and Trueman vanishes from the site, Turk takes on Jones’s and Levy’s presbyterianism, and I miss “Deviant Calvinism week.” Conspiracy theorists (and perhaps certain biblical theology practitioners) might…

Discursive reason–our capacity to think things through, infer conclusions, offer logical explanations, and so on–enables us to argue a point, make judgments, criticize beliefs and actions, and, in a word,…

The accusation that Protestants were slow to take up the evangelical mission to the world and that this exposes some sort of fundamental flaw in our faith has been almost…

NYU profs Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White open their history of logic, If A, then B: How the World Discovered Logic, with this: “The world is logical, according to some.…

I’m sitting at the dining room table at my in-laws waiting for a call from someone to come fix my broken car (a minor issue, really, but one that needs…