Neocalvinist philosopher and theologian Al Wolters calls present and future generations of neocalvinists to look back to neocalvinism’s intellectual roots and forebears, to look forward to alternative ways of expressing neocalvinist commitments to our world. Neocalvinism is a considered, Christian response to the broad, controlling philosophy of our times—modernism—and an attempt to account for the myriad ways in which our society develops into various categories of activity.
To say, “That’s just politics,” misses the point. There is a domain of the political, and politics can be a noble calling. Russ Kuykendall suggests an approach that accounts for the political domain, and how politics can be ennobled.
Gideon Strauss points to “the sweetly destructive force” of liberal capitalism. Then Strauss turns his attention to the other great, global challenges of the times: Salafiyyah Islam, China, and post-Western Christianity in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The real question, then, may not be the question of union decline and revival, but rather the question of how to adapt our structures and public policy to accommodate the emerging forms of worker organization.
What is the most important thing in life to you? When your life is over and you look back—what do you want to be known for? The answers to these questions are visible today in the productivity and profitability of your company. There is a connection between the values that you hold—your character—and the productivity or success of your company.
The failure of the New York Intellectuals, finally—after a life in the American public as critics and theorists, pundits and intellectuals—was the failure to pass on a tradition. They became but a historical quirk when they failed to bequeath the tradition onto another generation and another age.
He came to the expectant members with an ambitious program of study. It was designed to be a systematic approach to delving into the meaning of the Reformed or Calvinist religion in all its ramifications for the life of service that students were preparing for, whether that be in science, business, the gospel ministry, medicine, law, or education.
We participate in a vast array of social structures, yet their roles, privileges, and obligations are not addressed in the social contract.
It's entirely possible that someone would look at the title of this column and think, "Is this a discussion of the many benefits of the Abrahamic covenant?" While it is indeed more than worthwhile to mine the riches of faith that we have because of Abraham's obedience...
There is a rather quaint way of describing the modern maldistribution of the world’s goods between haves and have-nots. The fact that some people live in want while others live comfortably—that some go to bed hungry while others risk obesity—is summed up in this term: the social question.
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