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Community Member Benjamin Guyer

Benjamin Guyer

Dr. Benjamin Guyer is a lecturer in the department of history and philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He earned a PhD in British history at the University of Kansas (2016).

With Dr. Paul Avis, he is the editor of The Lambeth Conference: Theology, History, Polity and Purpose (Bloomsbury, 2017).

His dissertation, The Semantics of Reformation: Discourses of Religious Change in England, 1414-1688, studied how the word reformation changed meaning in England.

The First Commandment

Benjamin Guyer
August 20, 2020
Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, Ethics, Ten Commandments, The Episcopal Church
Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Benjamin M. Guyer I am the Lord your God who brought you out of bondage. You shall have no other gods but me. (BCP p. 350) Is the first commandment really a com... Read More...

President Trump and Evangelicals’ Shifting Playbook

Benjamin Guyer
August 4, 2020
Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church
Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump By John Fea Eerdmans Pp. 238 $24.99. Review by Benjamin Guyer John Fea opens the conclusion of Believe Me by relating a conversation that occurred at an ... Read More...

How Should We Use Our Stimulus Money?

Benjamin Guyer
April 27, 2020
Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church
By Benjamin M. Guyer On March 25, the Senate approved a $2 trillion economic stimulus package. It includes a provision of at least $1,200 for most Americans. The goal is to help counter the economic effects ... Read More...

Christmas Music Worth Your Time

Benjamin Guyer
December 24, 2019
Commentary, Contributors, Music, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church
The following may not quite enable the musical equivalent of a monastic flight from the forced saccharine madness that blares from too many speakers in public places, but each album will help create spaces of Christian contemplation and reflection during the Christmas season.

David Bentley Hart has Written a Silly Book

Benjamin Guyer
October 30, 2019
Books, Contributors, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church
David Bentley Hart’s That All Shall Be Saved is a regrettably unflinching reminder that ego, not piety, is the ground of much modern theology.

Jesus Reimagined in Modern South Africa

Benjamin Guyer
October 11, 2019
Contributors, Movies, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church
Christians have long struggled with seeing Jesus as Jewish. Yes, Christ becomes more relatable once “incarnated” in a specific cultural context.

Clergy: Don’t Apologize for Lent

Benjamin Guyer
March 5, 2019
Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
We all need Lent more than we know.

A Sunday in the Anglican Diaspora

Benjamin Guyer
December 3, 2018
ACNA, Commentary, Ecclesiology, The Episcopal Church
North American Anglicans lack an ecclesiology that can comprehend our fragmentation and numerical decay.
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