Donald Livingston

The Gospel and the Mind

Christian Living

“The Enlightenment teaching that reason is a neutral universal act of thought free of tradition has been as decisively refuted as any philosophical theory can be. But the question remains of how to understand the embededness of reason in tradition. Green makes a convincing argument that Christianity contains just those foundational beliefs about reality that make the life of the mind possible. Christians who for two centuries have anxiously tried to conform their teachings to Enlightenment reason will discover—perhaps to their astonishment—that it is the gospel that makes reason in its fullest sense possible.”

What Is Critical Theory?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Saint Irenaeus wrote against the seductive influence that Gnostic sects had in the second-century church. Brad Green has reenacted that project in a criticism of a select group of thinkers (Benjamin, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and Adorno) that inspired the latter-day gnostic sects of critical theory, which have run amok in higher education in recent decades.”