Over the next while, I will be posting short reviews of books I’ve received from publishers. Thank you to Angelico Press, Eerdmans, Baker, Fortress Press, Wipf and Stock and IVP for their generosity! Ideally, I would be writing a long, thought out review of these books, but I find myself too busy with my university … Continue reading Short Book Reviews #2 Luther’s Basic Writings and Luther: A Contemporary Introduction, Oswald Bayer
Category: Martin Luther
Luther and Othello: Skepticism, Anfechtung, and “the Doubting Disease”
This is an essay I wrote for a Philosophy class on American philospher Stanley Cavell and the plays of Shakespeare. I don't like to post my academic essays on this blog, but this one is a particularly important piece for me. “You have as much laughter as you have faith.” Martin Luther Shakespeare’s play Othello … Continue reading Luther and Othello: Skepticism, Anfechtung, and “the Doubting Disease”
Lucretius, Luther, and Charles Taylor
One cannot help but think that the problem that Lucretius is trying to address is the same one that Luther is seeking to answer in a different way.
Gratitude
What our sense of 'gratitude' reveals is the depth of our false allegiance to the god of this age.



