Essays & reviews on history & social theory

History & politics

History: America

Ruben C. Alvarado - Wordbridge Publishing  Vitoria's New World Order: The Great Commission and the Discovery of the New World Archie P. Jones  Christianity, Our Early State Constitutions,and American Federalism Steven Alan Samson  The Covenant Origins Of The American Polity Roger Schultz  A Celebration of Infidels: The American Enlightenment in the Revolutionary Era  Where the Buffalo Roamed  Politics of Righteousness: Christian Political Movements in the Early 19th Century  Horton Lays an Egg (Review of Made in America: The Shaping of Modern American Evangelicalism, by Michael Scott Horton) Mark Ahlseen  Review of Abandoned: The Betrayal of the American Middle Class Since World War II, by William J. Quirk & R. Randall Bridwell Michael W. Kelley  Review of Bradley J. Longfield, The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists, & Moderates History: European  The Glover Thesis on the Origins of Modernity  The Origins of Freemasonry and Occult Practices in Relation to Reformation Thought  Richard Price, the Enlightenment, education and the millennium  No Dispensationalism Before Darby, review of William C. Watson, Dispensationalism Before Darby William H. Burnside  Review of At the Origins of Modern Atheism, by Michael J. Buckley Theories of History  Review of Patterns in History: A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought, by David Bebbington William H. Burnside  Francis Schaeffer's Philosophy of History Steven Alan Samson  Models of Historical Interpretation Roger Schultz  Through Barthian Eyes (Review of History Through the Eyes of Faith: Western Civilization and the Kingdom of God, Ronald Wells) Michael W. Kelley  The Impulse of Power: Formative Ideals of Western Civilization  The Modernity Monster (Review of No Place for Truth: Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? and God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams, by David Wells  Review of The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View, by Richard Tarnas Theories of society  The Christian Homeland Debate The scandal of the stolen 2020 election has brought new calls for succession or a new Christian state as the only viable way to protect freedom. The old Christian homeland debate is suddenly relevant again.  Review of How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter  Do Jews Exist? - A review of The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand Ruben C. Alvarado  Dominion Theology Meets the Kingdom of God - A review of The Kingdom and the Power, by Peter Leithart A. R. Kayayan  Notes on Neo-Paganism Mark Y. Herring  Review of The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion, by Stephen L. Carter Franklin Sanders  The Militia: Is It Time to Fight? — A View from 25 Years Ago Thomas Schirrmacher  Cannibalism  Germany’s Lawless Pietism and Salvation Through the State  Trinity and Work: A critique of the view of the daily work in other Religions and in Marxism