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New from Theopolis Books: Peter J. Leithart's new volume exploring the ramifications of the thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy for the Christian faith. Order the book here. Theologians ignore the work of German philosopher and sociologist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), despite his major contributions to Christian thought. In this volume, Peter J. Leithart shows why that neglect is a mistake, considering Rosenstock-Huessy's thoughts on the soul, time, the cross, and more.  ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, and Teacher at Trinity Presbyterian Church. He is author of a number of books, including...

What does Proverbs teach us about the Christian Life? Bill Smith's new book shows us How It All Fits Together in Wisdom. For you to face any situation, you need someone to show you the way. We need God to explain to us who we are, why we are here, and where we are going. We need his wisdom. In Jesus the world finds its true and intended order. When we look at the life of Christ, we see how God governs his world and how he expects man to govern in his world. In this book, Bill Smith shows...

The second edition of Peter J. Leithart's book, The Kingdom and the Power: Rediscovering the Centrality of the Church, is now in print through Theopolis Books. Activist Christians tend to assume that, if the church is to be politically influential, her first task is to become more political. National political issues have, as a result, displaced theological and ecclesiastical concerns in the “agenda” and priorities of many churches. As a result, churches, especially those dominated by an activist model of the kingdom, fail to address the world in a distinctively Christian manner—that is, as the church. In his book, The...

Worlds die. Our own world is in such turmoil that we wonder whether we can live in hope. Through the gospel, the Father gives us a hope that is not simply a desire or expectation for future good. 

Hope is our present possession because God is our present possession. As members of Christ who is our Hope, we form a community of hope, dispersed in hope to share the mission of Jesus.

We need to free ourselves from the deranged notion that a text must be either literal or figurative and that we have to read consistently one way or the other.  The demand for consistency can only lead to absurdities.  “Babylon” is a great city and a great harlot (Rev 17—18). Whichisit, John? If it’s the city “Babylon,” “Harlot” can’t be literal. A city might be full of harlots, but the city itself cannot be a harlot. And it’s not literally “Babylon” either. By John’s day, Babylon wasn’t a great power. Both terms are figurative. We can’t take either one literally...