Carl Henry’s 40-year verdict on his small early book The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism included the summary: “[T]wo things sometimes surprise me: … how little I said and how boldly I said it” (Theology, News and Notes, December, 1987, p. 3). I had a similar experience reading Christopher Wiley’s The Household and the War [...]
Author: P. Andrew Sandlin
I am president of the Center for Cultural Leadership, core faculty of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship and the H. Evan Runner International Academy for Cultural Leadership, and De Yong Distinguished Visiting Professor of Culture and Theology, Edinburg Theological Seminary. I am happily married to Sharon Lynn Sandlin (nee Habedank) and have five adult children and three grandchildren.
The Danger of Pilgrim Theology
The video-cast is here.
The Thinning of the Church
Today’s church is increasingly thin.[1] It has little substance. It blows about with every wind of doctrine (Eph. 4:14). It drifts from fad to fad, from kitsch to kitsch, from celebrity to celebrity. It chases the latest cultural prostitute. It is the laughingstock of the depraved society it so slavishly imitates. The church no longer [...]
Three Axioms on Homosexuality in the Church
We should have great pity, but also a measure of respect, for those who practice or champion homosexuality and who, understanding its incompatibility with the Faith, publicly abandon Christianity and the church. They understand and act on the principles involved. However, we should view with contempt and suspicion those claiming to be Christians who practice [...]
Creationism, or Creational Worldview?
A Note on Faith, Works, and Justification
A friend recently asked my opinion about a famous Bible teacher charged with heresy because of his view of the relationship between faith and good works. Here is the substance of my response: I’ve spent hundreds of hours researching this very topic (exegetical theology, systematic theology, and historical theology), and I wrote two dissertations relating [...]
Covenant versus Autonomy
Ours is an age of autonomy (“self-law”). Of course, autonomy has been around since the Fall. What’s different today is that the secular West has created sophisticated rationales for it. It’s not just that man is autonomous; it’s that man should be autonomous, and any other way is unnatural and enslaving. Man hasn’t simply broken [...]
