In the last two weeks of my Modern Europe course, we’ve twice run headlong into the hardest question historians ask: Why? First, I had my students read The Dynamite Club, John Merriman’s account of Émile Henry, a young French anarchist who threw a bomb into a crowded Paris café in 1894 — thereby, in John’s … More Terror, Secularization, and “Imaginative Understanding”
It’s a pretty uninteresting “week in history,” so I’m going to let that feature take some time off and come back reinvigorated next week. But one event this day in history prompted some reflection: October 24, 1945 – The United Nations comes into being When the five members of the Security Council (USSR, US, Britain, … More This Day in History: Peace vs. Justice
What you might have missed in the last seven days here at The Pietist Schoolman or elsewhere on interesting blogs, op-ed pages, etc. Here Celebrating some free advertising for our Pietist Impulse book! My attempts to venture into biblical studies and the history of rhetoric: when did Micah 6:8 become the social justice verse, and … More That Was the Week That Was
10/21/11 – Start your Christmas shopping early and order The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, now available for Kindle!
10/20/11 – Back after a brief hiatus, this week on CWC: The Radio Show… Amy, Sara, Sam, and I discuss the educational value of crisis, remaking ’80s sitcoms, the suburbs, God’s judgments, and IKEA. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the home page.
Here are the ten most popular posts in the past month here at The Pietist Schoolman: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War The Usable Past: Pietism and Bethel University “The Right Kind of Peace” Does Your Church Value Church History? Radio Kings: The Jayhawks Nevinson’s War The First War Documentary “The Capital of the … More The Big Ten
10/19/11 – Every month Christianity Today, the leading evangelical magazine in this country, features a set of mini-book reviews by John Wilson, editor of CT’s awesome sister publication, Books and Culture. Now, I would have been happy just to know that John Wilson knew of our book, let alone read it. But to our utter … More The Pietist Impulse Hits the Big Time
He has shown all you people what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8, TNIV) Let me say right off the bat: I believe Christians ought to seek social justice. We follow a Savior who opened … More Micah 6:8 in Christian Rhetoric
10/18/11 – Kyle Roberts, another of my colleagues up at Bethel Seminary (and one of the contributors to our Pietist Impulse book), will be part of a panel discussion of Sophocles’ Antigone (adapted as Burial at Thebes) after it is performed tonight at Minneapolis’ famous Guthrie Theater. The curtain goes up in just over two … More Sophocles, Baptist Pietist
10/18/11 – My colleague Chris Armstrong (who blogs at Grateful to the dead) has just posted a wonderfully erudite and accessible four-part series on Christian “religion of the heart,” making the case that Pietists stand with a long line of Christians (Peter, Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, Catherine of Siena, Martin Luther, Puritans, John Wesley) who … More Religion of the Heart
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