Defending the Inward Turn A Critical Review of Carl Trueman’s The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self In an early scene in “The Foundling,” episode four of The Mandalorian’s third season, the mysterious character known as “The Armorer”... Read More...
Longing for a Re-enchanted World: David Bentley Hart’s Roland in Moonlight By Matt Boulter When, several years ago, I read Jean Grondin’s intellectual biography Gadamer, about the eponymous German continental philosopher, I was astonished a... Read More...
Christianity as Social Justice? Thanks, Kant. By Matthew Boulter For many Episcopalians, among the most beloved sections of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer is the Baptismal Covenant, rehearsed and proclaimed in the Service of Holy Baptism. After we commi... Read More...
Drawn into Beauty (with Peterson, Barron, and Augustine) By Matt Boulter In a Covenant piece I wrote in 2018, I claimed that readers of this website should pay attention to Jordan Peterson because, among other reasons, he reminds us that “modern and contemporary i... Read More...
Christian Memory and Confederate Statues: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet By Matt Boulter Discussing Christopher Nolan’s 2020 Tenet is a lot like discussing the book of Revelation: the “text” is so complicated and apparently convoluted that you are constantly wondering if you have... Read More...
Augustine, Bonaventure, & Climate-pocalypse By Matt Boulter Is it just me, or are we currently living through a chapter of human history which is unprecedentedly spooky? Unrelenting forest fires in California and Oregon, the melting of polar icecaps i... Read More...
Wearing, Eating, Loving: The Haptics of Christ-Cloven Flesh By Matt Boulter Around 2014 I read a striking repudiation of “Christian family values.” This in itself is nothing surprising, what struck me was that this came from the pen of a Christian thinker. Arguing ag... Read More...
Re-Evaluating David Brooks By Matt Boulter It was circa 2002. I was an urban church planter in an evangelical denomination in my early 30s, working in a trendy American city. I was full of enthused, energetic adrenaline for gospel-bas... Read More...
