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The Top Theology Books of 2020
If there’s one thing this year has been good for it’s books. That, and the additional time to read them. The following are some of the most
Tag : Alec Ryrie
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How Puritans Shaped Anglicanism
Some will not like reading this, but Alec Ryrie cannot be canceled so readily . Between the Elizabethan settlement and the English Civil War, the
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The Shape of Modern Morality: Swapping Jesus for Hitler?
The hippies of the 1960s didn’t kill Christianity. Adolf Hitler did. Let me explain. From the 1960s onwards, discussions of the decline of
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Another Week Ends: Martin Luther on COVID-19, Tara Isabella Burton, Christ and Calamity, Generational Sin, and Faithful Doubt
1. Mere Orthodoxy has published an excerpt from an excellent book, Christ and Calamity: Grace and Gratitude in the Darkest Valley, by Harold
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Nothing New About Doubt: When Medieval Unbelievers Seem a Lot Like…Us
More wearying than the person who seems to have convictions about everything might be the person who speaks as if their lack of conviction were a
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Who Killed God? (Christians, with the Ethics, in the Renaissance)
Currently reading and enjoying Alec Ryrie’s Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt. For anyone who likes the work of John Gray or Francis
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Another Week Ends: Nihilism of Grace, Pirate Jokes, Johnny Cash, Nathan Colberg, a Chess Grandmaster, Rich Thieves, and the Punk Churches of East Germany
1. Our first link this week comes from Digital Doxa, new home to peer-reviewed “scholastic musings” about the age of the Internet. They jump off
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Book Review: Protestants, by Alec Ryrie
Alec Ryrie, Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World. Viking, 2017. 467 pages. On October 31, 1517, an obscure monk in an obscure university