Christopher Ben Simpson

Emerging Prophet

Philosophy

“Following Kierkegaard, Roberts encourages and displays a healthy rhythm of critical distance and active engagement--funding both the critique of the idols of modernism, moralism, and Christendom, and the creative retrieval of a proper understanding of the revelation of God in Scripture and our imaginative, hermeneutical engagement with it.”

Kierkegaard’s Theological Sociology

Philosophy

“Tyson’s book reveals Kierkegaard at his most prophetic in the senses of being both subversive—confronting how we have come to think of ourselves and society—and eerily prescient and timely. Tyson argues that Kierkegaard’s theological sociology arising in the tinderbox of 1840s can be seen as a basic alternative to Marx’s contemporary, deeply secular, and epoch-making understanding of society. As such it provides an alternate vision of society in the wake of Marx and secular modern understandings of human society.”

Seeing Things as They Are

Philosophy

“In this work on Chesterton's drama of meaning, he shines forth as characteristically holistic, sane, joyous, and alert--at once wary of any easy 'self-evident' access to the way things are and yet hopeful in presenting ways to see the world more clearly. Reyburn's book, both scholarly and accessible, is more lively than any work about philosophical hermeneutics has the right to be.”