articles by S. M. Hutchens
37.1 — Jan/Feb 2024
Should Women Be Ordained? An Examination of Biblical Texts and Arguments Commonly Used to Promote Women’s Ordination by Jeff Williams
36.1 — Jan/Feb 2023
The Eclipse of Mere Christianity & the Vision of the Elect
33.3 — May/June 2020
Losing the Good Portion: Why Men Are Alienated from Christianity by Leon J. Podles
32.2 — March/April 2019
Deeper Magic: The Theology Behind the Writings of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
31.1 — January/February 2018
Reviews of Man Up! by Jeffrey Hemmer & Man of the House by C. R. Wiley
30.5 — Sept/Oct 2017
Theosis: Patristic Remedy for Evangelical Yearning at the Close of the Modern Age by Michael Paul Gama
30.2 — March/April 2017
Without Precedent: Scripture, Tradition, and the Ordination of Women by Geoffrey Kirk
29.5 — Sept/Oct 2016
The Church: A Theological and Historical Account
by Gerald Bray
29.4 — July/August 2016
Reclaiming the Atonement: An Orthodox Theology of Redemption; Volume 1 by Patrick Henry Reardon
29.3 — May/June 2016
Women and C. S. Lewis: What His Life and Literature Reveal for Today's Culture
by Carolyn Curtis and Mary Pomroy Key
29.3 — May/June 2016
A Change of Heart: A Personal and Theological Memoir
by Thomas C. Oden
29.2 — March/April 2016
The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer
J. Pepino, trans.
Louis Bouyer: Memoirs
J. E. Nash, trans. and annot.
29.1 — Jan/Feb 2016
The Pastor as a Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision by Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Owen Strachan
28.4 — July/Aug 2015
A Philosophical Walking Tour with C. S. Lewis: Why It Did Not Include Rome by Stewart Goetz
27.5 — Sept/Oct 2014
On the God of the Christians (and on one or two others) by Rémi Brague
25.3 — May/Jun 2012
The Theology of Jonathan Edwards by Michael J. McClymond and Gerald R. McDermott
23.6 — November/December 2010
A Sword Between the Sexes? C. S. Lewis and the Gender Debates
by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
21.1 — January/February 2008
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
by Matthew Avery Sutton
20.10 — December 2007
Tripping the Prom Queen:
The Truth About Women and Rivalry
by Susan Shapiro Barash
20.1 — January/February 2007
Self-Made Man: One Woman?s Journey into Manhood and Back Again
by Norah Vincent
19.9 — November 2006
Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
by Thomas Albert Howard
19.7 — September 2006
Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
16.6 — July/August 2003
Unity, Truth & Christian Identity
In One Body Through the Cross
edited by Carl E. Braaten and
Robert W. Jenson
13.6 — July/August 2000
Getting the Gospel Right
by R. C. Sproul
Union with Christ
Carl E. Braaten and
Robert W. Jenson, eds.
11.1 — January/February 1998
An Internet Discussion Between Terry Mattingly & S. M. Hutchens
10.4 — Fall 1997
Two Excerpts on the Relations Between Protestants, Roman Catholics, & Orthodox
8.3 — Summer 1995
My Brother, Be He Ne’er So Vile?
The Difficulty & Promise of Catholic-Evangelical Rapprochement: An Address to an Evangelical Congregation
8.2 — Spring 1995
Reality, Revelation & the Seductions of Abstract Thought
7.1 — Winter 1994
Evangelicals Confront the Church Catholic
The Body: Being Light in the Darkness by Charles Colson with Ellen Santilli Vaughn
5.1 — Winter 1992
J. W. Nevin on the Sectarian Mind
Lessons from Mercersburg for Modern Evangelicals
4.2 — Special Issue: The Bible 1991
The Bible Under Spirit & Church
Some Light from the East for the Perplexed Inerrantist
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