An associate professor of European history at North Dakota State University, where she teaches courses on the Middle Ages and the Reformation.
When I pick up a book that comes endorsed with impressive blurbs on the back cover and an appreciative foreword by one of the tradition’s heavy-weights, my attention is piqued. Bradley Nassif’s The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church is one such book. The title is supposed to be provocative, suggesting that Evangelicalism has its[…..]
American capitalism venerates choice as the sacred vessel of consumerism. The message is that endless acquisition is the path to happiness and, implicitly, that if we could only choose the right object, experience, or partner, we would (at last) be perfectly happy and fulfilled. This reasoning, is seems to me, now extends to what I[…..]
Theological accounts of human sinfulness tend to have a deceptive simplicity across Christian traditions. Sin appears as a result of the first disobedience by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. After a brief discussion, they nibble on the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, in direct violation of God’s command, and it[…..]
