George M. Marsden

Jan 17, 2025 | im1776.com | Lafayette Lee |George M. Marsden |Christopher Rufo |Pedro Gonzalez |Pedro González

“We Germans write fat volumes about Realpolitik but understand it no better than babies at a nursery. But you Americans understand it far too well to talk about it.” — A Berlin professor to Walter WeylAt a news conference at Mar-a-Lago last week, President Donald Trump raised eyebrows around the world when he refused to rule out the use of force to seize control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Oct 29, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | George M. Marsden

BOOK REVIEW David A. Hollinger, Christianity's American Fate: How Religion Became more Conservative and Society More Secular. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press 2022; pp. xiv + 199. First published: 29 October 2024 No abstract is available for this article.

Apr 16, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Collin Hansen |George M. Marsden |Joe Carter |Denny Burk

The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. Collin HansenIn some of our most tumultuous times, God gives us our greatest thinkers consider Augustine writing his city of God during the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. Or consider CS Lewis writing in the middle of the Battle of Britain during the Second World War.

Mar 14, 2024 | christiancentury.org | George M. Marsden |Yolanda Pierce |Malka Simkovich |E. Heath

The modern revival of interest in the Puritan pastor-philosopher Jonathan Edwards began with historian Perry Miller’s 1949 biography. In Miller’s telling, Edwards was a solitary genius in the wilderness. While still a teenager, he was the only American to read and comprehend the revolutionary insights of John Locke and Isaac Newton.

Oct 2, 2023 | theaquilareport.com | George M. Marsden

In Edwards’s greatest sermon, “A Divine and Supernatural Light,” he depicts the beauty of the redemptive love of Christ as a light flowing from the center of reality. Since that light reveals the beauty of a loving person, it can be truly known only affectively. Someone might have just a rational knowledge about that love but not truly sense it. Edwards uses the analogy of our human loves. “There is a difference between believing that a person is beautiful, and having a sense of his beauty.