Several prominent Anglicans have praised the Rev. Canon Michael Green, former senior evangelism adviser to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, who died Feb. 8 at age 88. “His passing was peaceful and he was surrounded by [his wife] Rosemary and his immediate family,” said Greg Downes, director of ministerial training at Wycliffe Hall, in a statement. “I’ve just spoken to … [Read more...] about ‘An Evangelist to the Last’
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Autobiographical Apologetics
The Landscape of Faith An Explorer’s Guide to the Christian Creeds By Alister McGrath SPCK. Pp. xiii+256. $23 Review by J. David Moser St. Augustine called Christians viatores, wayfarers, who journey through this world to their heavenly destination. Alister McGrath, the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, has given us a map … [Read more...] about Autobiographical Apologetics
A Few Cheers for Intelligent Design
Darwin’s Doubt The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design By Stephen C. Meyer. Harper One. Pp. 540. $19.99 Review by Daniel Muth I am fairly certain that there are thoughtful and potentially influential intellectual movements that have been subjected to more shameful and inexcusable misrepresentation and ill treatment than Intelligent … [Read more...] about A Few Cheers for Intelligent Design
A Better Story than Atheism
How might Christians respond to secularism, the relegation of religion to the margins of public life? Must Christianity dwell only in the pew, home, and heart and not step into the public square?Six plenary speakers addressed such questions during this year’s Mere Anglicanism conference held Jan. 22-24 in Charleston, South Carolina.“The Church has too often colluded with … [Read more...] about A Better Story than Atheism
Discipline in Christian Basics
Review by Paul A. Nesta In lectures originally given as a Holy Week series at Canterbury Cathedral, Rowan Williams imagines what a community “might hope to become” through baptism, the Bible, Eucharist, and prayer. Baptism is the event whereby people are formally brought into the Christian community. The effect of the baptismal event is a fundamental union with Christ in his … [Read more...] about Discipline in Christian Basics
Naturalism Brought Low
All too many of us have been taught to think that science has proven the truth of atheist naturalism. Since we live in a demythologized world shorn of sprites, daemons, fairies, and dryads, it follows that we remove from our worldview God or indeed transcendence in any form. The scientific endeavor’s methodological agnosticism easily morphs into a much more dubious … [Read more...] about Naturalism Brought Low