We are, all of us, characters in the “theater of the world.” The phrase is from Swiss theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar, though the idea itself isn’t uniquely...
Last month, IFWE’s book club read The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber. Weber coined the phrase “Protestant work ethic” over one hundred years...
Editor’s Note: Today we continue our series of excerpts from IFWE’s forthcoming book, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty, due to be released in...
Is private ownership of property contrary to human nature? Since the “earth is the Lord’s” (Psalm 24:1), it would seem that humans have no right to own anything....
What can a seventeenth century laymen teach us in the twenty-first century about faith and work? One of the biggest questions that we face as Christians is how...
Last week, I taught a graduate level course called Christian Traditions as part of Wheaton College’s M.A. Biblical Studies program. The course covered a range of Christian traditions:...
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports…reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can...
In When Helping Hurts, Dr. Brian Fikkert makes a bold claim: the current welfare state is the fault of the evangelical church. In The Great Reversal: Evangelism Versus...
Hasn’t Christianity always opposed free enterprise? It’s easy to think so. In fact, my colleague, Anne Bradley, was asked this question by a student at a recent conference....
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