Articles for tag: Tertullian

February 27, 2016

Christian Standard

Finding the Right Answers

By Matt Johnson Everyday Theology, as its subtitle promises, tells us How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends.  How does your faith speak to human rights, pop music, or designer funerals? Is there any benefit to buying a ticket for the latest Hollywood blockbuster? When should we embrace the hurry of modern American culture, and when should we slow down? What does the proliferation of the blogosphere mean to our culture and the church? Complicated questions have complicated answers, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something less than the gospel. So I appreciated Everyday Theology (Grand Rapids:

December 8, 2011

Christian Standard

Tunisia . . . An Unprecedented Opportunity for the Gospel

By Name Withheld A year ago, most Americans had never heard of the small African country of Tunisia. Global awareness changed in January, when a desperate young fruit vendor set himself on fire and Tunisia became the first of a string of Arab nations to revolt against oppressive dictators. Now, in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution, Tunisians are recovering from the shock of the past, putting the pieces back together, and dreaming about their future. And Christian workers and believers in Tunisia are taking advantage of an unprecedented window of opportunity for the gospel. Christianity is intricately woven throughout Tunisian

June 28, 2009

Christian Standard

That Old-Time Religion

  By David A. Fiensy I grew up in southern Illinois where the appeal to the old-time religion was almost a weekly observance. It seems like we were always trying to get back to the “old Bible days” when they had church on Sunday nights, sang hymns composed by Fanny Crosby, and held revivals in tents. If some infraction occurred in the community (such as a public official being arrested in an illegal activity), we blamed it on modernism. What we needed, we protested, was to get back to that old-time religion. And, of course, we thought every Christian should

January 20, 2008

Christian Standard

What About War?

By Robert F. Hull Jr. For almost 50 years I have been haunted by this question. It began, I suppose, with Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Man He Killed,” which I first read as a junior high school class assignment: Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! _ But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him and he at me, And killed him in his place. _ I shot him dead because— Because he was my foe, Just so: my

April 1, 2007

Christian Standard

Why Scholarship Matters in the Church

By Robert F. Hull Jr. It was Tertullian (ca. ad 200) who famously asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What has the Academy to do with the Church?” (Prescription Against Heretics, 7). Ironically, his own polished rhetoric shows his indebtedness to higher learning, which enabled him to write essays both in Greek and Latin in the service of his faith. Moreover, had he not been schooled in philosophy, he could not have argued so skillfully against it. Scholarship Matters It is still not unusual to find high-level scholarship derided as a sterile, if not dangerous, undertaking for those

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