Abraham Kuyper: Christ Transforming Culture
In his 1951 book, Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr set out these models for Christian engagement with culture: Christ against culture, Christ in culture, and Christ transforming culture [1]. – The first calls for Christians to actively withdraw from society. This approach often fosters enmity between believers and unbelievers. – The second states that Christians should imbibe the culture around them. Differences...
Life, Liberty, and Luther
Since the Helwys Society Forum’s beginning, we have sought to encourage Christians to engage with the greater Christian tradition. Serious theological is reflection both concerned about the Church’s present as well as her past. For this reason, though there are many who deserve our attention, four figures will be examined this month: Martin Luther, Abraham Kuyper, C. S. Lewis, and Francis Schaeffer. We intend not only to introduce...
A Twenty-first Century Reformation?
Every year a new round of publications on the Protestant Reformation checker the pages of academic catalogs around this time. While the arguments and approaches of these books differ, they all implicitly point to the same conclusion: the Reformation’s significance to Christianity is enduring and will continue to be the subject of conversation going forward. Baptists are frequently dismissed as not being historically or theologically...
I Voted! (Here’s Why)
ONE Magazine recently honored HSF by publishing articles by two of its members in its August-September 2012 issue. It published “The Scandal of Singleness” by W. Jackson Watts, which was adapted from an original HSF article by the same name. It also published “I Voted! (Here’s Why)” by Matthew S. Bracey. As America is just one week away from Election Day 2012, we present this timely article now:...
The Seduction of Story
As adults, most of us remember with delight those stories that filled our imaginations as children. Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn, Franklin’s Dixon’s The Hardy Boys, or J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter are just a few examples. Bible stories also memorably captured our attentions. Think of Noah and the Ark, David and Goliath, or Jonah and the Great Fish. Stories aren’t just for children, though. They’re for adults, too. What is it...
Theological Triage
Discrediting Christianity is not too difficult these days: “Why work too hard or get our hands too dirty, when applying the labels Fundamentalist and Evangelical will do the trick of sending those pesky Christians back to the hills where they belong,” some think. These are the tactics of many media outlets. There is no denying that the Church is at odds with the things of this world. Though the world despises the Gospel, Christians...
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