Category: Books
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Pearcey Review (Summation)
Nancy Pearcey seems like a wonderful, delightful, and godly woman. She is obviously brilliant and she is totally devoted to the defense of the Christian faith in the public square. In her new book on masculinity, it’s clear that she appreciates men/masculinity and wants to defend Christian men against unfair accusations. To be honest, I…
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Pearcey’s Toxic War on Masculinity
The whole generation is womanized, the masculine tone is passing out of the world; it’s a feminine hysterical, chattering, canting age. — Henry James (1886) Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (5): Mattson Weighs In
Mattson’s review of Wolfe’s book is well worth reading if you have been following the discussions on Christian nationalism. I might not agree with Mattson on every particular criticism and I certainly find a few more points of agreement with Wolfe’s social commentary in the second half of his book, but Mattson offers a pretty convincing…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 4)
I appreciated a lot of Wolfe’s critique of VanDrunen’s radical two kingdom view, including the way he brought out its latent antinomianism. But there are still some problems with Wolfe’s two kingdom view, especially the heaven/earth, sacred/secular dualism built into it. I do not think Wolfe has done justice to the Calvinistic transformationalists (CT). Many…
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Wolfe and Wilson: Questions about Christian Nationalism
I realize Canon Press and the Moscow guys are pushing Wolfe’s book hard, but it seems to me this must represent some kind of shift. Wolfe’s approach relies on Thomism and natural law (no hint of anything theonomic from what I can see so far) and emphasizes dichotomies like nature/grace and secular/sacred. These are not the…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 3)
I’m not any further into Wolfe’s book but I did see his twitter thread from yesterday. Wolfe rejects ecclesiocentrism. It is not clear to me that the ecclesiocentrism he rejects is the same thing as the ecclesiocentrism someone like me might affirm. It is also not clear that Wolfe’s version of Protestant “two kingdom” political…
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The Books I’ve Loved Loved – #2
I posted this brief review on Facebook last September, but it really belongs here as well. Katy Faust’s book Them Before Us should be high on everyone’s reading list. I have followed Faust’s outstanding work for several years on various social media platforms and this book represents the distillation of much of her research. It is a…
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The Books I’ve Loved – #1
I was going through my bookshelf the other day and came across Werner Neuer’s Man and Woman in Christian Perspective. I first read it in college, probably about 1993 or so. It was recommended to me by Peter Doyle, the pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church of Opelika, AL. Dr. Doyle used to do a college men’s…
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