Below are a few specific articles on Christ and Culture.

Modern Reformation published three articles in the May/June issue of 2018 on Christ & Culture. For those articles, click here.

J. Gresham Machen gave an address on September 20, 1912, at the opening of the 101st session of Princeton Theological Seminary, which was later published in The Princeton Theological Review, vol. 11, 1913. The title of the Review paper is "Christianity & Culture." To view a copy of this paper, click here.

The White Horse Inn blog posted three articles on the book by James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky, Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality, Yale University Press, 2018. The three blog posts are as follows: (1) The Mod | "Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality" by James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky, posted on June 4, 2019 by Rev. John Bombaro, (2) The Mod | Dr. Nedelisky's Response to Dr. Bombaro's Review of "The Science and the Good", posted on July 10, 2019 by Paul Nedelisky, and (3) The Mod | Dr. Bombaro's Reply to Dr. Nedelisky, posted on July 10, 2019 by Rev. John Bombaro. These three posts may be viewed at the White Horse Inn blog site. They are also posted here: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3.

My review of James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky, Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality, Yale University Press, 2018, has now been published, and since I received permission from the Executive Editor of Modern Reformation to post it on this web site, as long as I include the following statement, "This review was originally published in Modern Reformation, vol. 29, iss. 5 (2020). For more information about Modern Reformation, please visit their site at www.modernreformation.org." I now post it here.

"The Moral Argument" by Mark D. Linville is chapter 7 in The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, edited by William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. The moral argument, as used by Linville, is an argument for the existence of God based on the reality of morality. That is, given that objective morality among humans, the concept of right and wrong, is real, how is it to be explained? Where does it come from? In the opening of "The Moral Argument," Linville quotes Nietzsche: "Morality 'has truth only if God is the truth - it stands or falls with faith in God' (Nietzsche 1968, p. 70)." [Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ] Continuing: "The moral argument for the existence of God essentially takes Nietzsche's assertion as one of its premises: if there is no God, then 'there are altogether no moral facts.'" (p. 392 in "The Moral Argument") This article by Linville is a detailed argument for the existence of God based on the reality of morality. It is part of Natural Theology, and is included here because of its contribution to Christ and Culture. "The Moral Argument" is available as a free download from wordpress. Click here. It is also available at this web site, click here.

"The Moral Argument" by Mark D. Linville, as noted above, is chapter 7 in The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, edited by William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Natural Law provides a bridge between Christians and the secular world inasmuch as all, according to Paul in Romans (especially the first three chapters or so), are aware of God and His Law at least to some extent. For many of us, these concepts may prove to be difficult at least in part because the Evangelical church has not stressed these ideas for about a hundred years or so. I have prepared some notes on Linville's article that may prove to be useful in understanding what he has written. To access "Notes on Linville's 'The Moral Argument'", click here.