“Love of men cannot be bought by cash-payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together.” —Thomas Carlyle The harsh fluorescent lights bore down on the tops of our heads as we
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In Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics, Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson, all professors of political science, argue that evangelicals have
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Alongside Luther, Calvin, and Edwards, Charles Spurgeon—the greatest preacher of Victorian London—is the Protestant icon most likely to appear on seminary syllabi and in conference sessions
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Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther are two of the most influential thinkers in the development of the early modern world. While neither figure is a liberal in the proper sense (it is Locke who