About Me
I graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion, and from Yale Divinity School with a Master of Arts in Religion, concentrating in Philosophical Theology. I am currently the Book Review Editor at The North American Anglican. The purpose of this website is to collect all of my writings in one convenient location. For each category pieces are listed from newest to oldest.
My Work
Anglicanism
In Search of the “Romish Doctrine” of Purgatory [Commentary on Browne: Article XXII (2)]
Disentangling Prayer for the Dead from Purgatory [Commentary on Browne: Article XXII (1)]
What Makes a Council Ecumenical [Commentary on Browne: Article XXI]
Book Review: “Richard Hooker: Theological Method and Anglican Identity”
On the Regulative Principle [Commentary on Browne: Article XX]
Anglicanism and the Church of Rome [Commentary on Browne: Article XIX]
The Fate of the Heathen [Commentary on Browne: Article XVIII]
Disregarding the False Dichotomy of Calvinism and Arminianism [Commentary on Browne: Article XVII]
Final Perseverance and the Thirty-nine Articles [Commentary on Browne: Article XVI (2)]
The Conundrum of Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost [Commentary on Browne: Article XVI (1)]
Book Review: “The Anglican Office Book, 2nd Edition”
On the Immaculate Conception [Commentary on Browne: Article XV (2)]
Christ’s Impeccability and the Doctrine of God [Commentary on Browne: Article XV (1)]
Perfection in the Christian Life [Commentary on Browne: Article XIV]
The Meaning of Merit De Congruo [Commentary on Browne: Article XIII]
The Purpose of Good Works [Commentary on Browne: Article XII]
The Propriety of “Conditions” for Justification [Commentary on Browne: Article XI (2)]
Whose Justification? [Commentary on Browne: Article XI (1)]
Free to Do Otherwise [Commentary on Browne: Article X]
The Nature of Concupiscence [Commentary on Browne: Article IX (2)]
GAFCON’s Commitment to Tradition and Sola Scriptura Rightly Understood
The Binding of Adam [Commentary on Browne: Article IX (1)]
Concerning the Creeds [Commentary on Browne: Article VIII]
The Moral and Eschatological Continuity of the Bible [Commentary on Browne: Article VII]
The Catholicity of the Apocrypha [Commentary on Browne: Article VI (2)]
Book Review: “Baptism and the Anglican Reformers”
Book Review: “Reformation Anglicanism: Essays on Edwardian Evangelicalism”
Polemical Canon Fodder [Commentary on Browne: Article VI (1)]
The Filioque and Its Current Status [Commentary on Browne: Article V]
The Difficulties and Limitations of Evidencing the Resurrection [Commentary on Browne: Article IV]
The Nature and Purpose of Christ’s Descent into Hell [Commentary on Browne: Article III (2)]
The Biblical Timeline of Life after Death [Commentary on Browne: Article III (1)]
Christ’s Suffering in Light of Divine Impassibility [Commentary on Browne: Article II (3)]
What Did Christ Know and When Did He Know It? [Commentary on Browne: Article II (2)]
In What Sense the Son is Subordinate to the Father [Commentary on Browne: Article II (1)]
Reason’s Role in Discerning the Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity [Commentary on Browne: Article I (3)]
Reason a Servant, Not the Master [Commentary on Browne: Article I (2)]
The Meaning of “Deadly Sin” in the Anglican Formularies
Book Review: “Bisschop’s Bench”
The Traditional Assumption of Classical Theism [Commentary on Browne: Article I (1)]
Reading the Articles: Hermeneutical Issues [Commentary on Browne: Introduction (3)]
The Anglo-Lutheran Connection [Commentary on Browne: Introduction (2)]
The Persistent Myth of the Church of England’s Founding [Commentary on Browne: Introduction (1)]
Book Review: “How the English Reformation was Named”
Book Review: “The Second Adam and the New Birth”
Book Review: “Anglicanism”
Book Review: “Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy”
Book Review: “The Sacramental Vision of Edward Bouverie Pusey”
Book Review: “Patriarcha”
Aquinas in Anglican Thought
Book Review: “Conversion and Election”
A Book to Guide the Church: The 1662 Book of Common Prayer, International Edition
Book Review: “The Oxford Movement in Context”
Book Review: Orthodox Anglican Identity by Charles Erlandson
Book Review: The Ark, the Covenant, and the Poor Men’s Chest
Debating Perseverance: A Book Review
Beauty
Wisdom is Born of Wonder: A Review of Wonder Strikes
God, Who Touchest Earth with Beauty
The Witness of Beauty: An Introduction (Part 1 of 3)
The Witness of Beauty: An Introduction (Part 2 of 3)
The Witness of Beauty: An Introduction (Part 3 of 3)
Book Review “A Poetics of Orthodoxy: Christian Truth as Aesthetic Foundation”
Beauty and Imagination in Christian Witness [A Review of Reimagining Apologetics]
What is Beauty? A Review of The Father of Lights
Reason for Being: A Christian Vision for the Arts
General Theology
Book Review: “Give Us This Day Devotionals, Volume 4: John”
Book Review: “Jesus and the God of Classical Theism”
Book Review: “The Openness of Being”
Book Review: “Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven”
Book Review: “Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel”
Book Review: “John Davenant’s Hypothetical Universalism”
Book Review: “On Christian Priesthood”
Book Review: “A Basic Guide to Eastern Orthodox Theology”
Book Review: “Contemplating God with the Great Tradition”
Book Review: “The Devil’s Redemption”
Book Review: “Metaphysics in the Reformation”
Christian Platonism and the Eternal Good [A Review of Christian Platonism: A History]
The Classical (Thomistic) Doctrine of God [A Review of The One Creator God]
Revisiting Martin Luther’s Philosophy [A Review of Prolegomena]
Review – Take This Cup by Charles Erlandson
Imagining Divine Participation [A Review of Participation in God]
A Theology of Proportion [A Review of God in Himself]
Instability and the Noonday Devil
Martin Luther and the Seven Sacraments – Book Review [Ad Fontes May 2018]
Generosity – More Than Money Can Buy
The Four-Chapter Gospel Is a Story of Awful People
The World Is Not on Your Shoulders
Grappling with the True Meaning of Power
What Is the Meaning of Mission in Today’s World?
Who Do You Say That Jesus Is?
Making Christian Apologetics Personal Again: A Review of Os Guinness’s “Fool’s Talk”
Public Theology
Book Review: “Life in the Negative World”
Calvin’s Political Theology Revisited
On “Necessity” and Tragic Morality
The Incoherency of Tragic Morality
Violence and “Necessity”: A Corrective
The Contested Nature of Reactionary Politics
Kinism and Wolfe’s Case for Christian Nationalism
Book Review: “The Case for Christian Nationalism”
Putting Natural Law in Its Place
Fidelity to the Truth in an Illiberal Time, on Rod Dreher’s Live Not by Lies
The False Promise of Natural Law Liberalism
The Ordinary Christian Option
Asceticism is for Everyone
Natural Law and the Prospects of Persuasion
The Evangelical Sensibility of the Benedict Option [Evangelical Quarterly Vol. XC No. 2 April 2019]
The Kuyperian Impulse of the Benedict Option
Is There Still Room for Christian Political Advocacy?
Is There a Problem with Conscience?
Are We Doomed to the Future Envisioned by Apocalyptic Entertainment?
How Ordinary People Are Giving Glimpses of God’s Restoration
The Power and Potency of Local Cultural Engagement
Can ‘Faithful Presence’ Change the World? Some Christian Leaders Aren’t so Sure
What We Talk about When We Talk about “Changing the World”
Work/Vocation
Is Discerning Your Calling Becoming Your “Holy Grail”?
Managing Expectations about Work, Life After College
Retirement Reexamined
How Worship Recalibrates Our View of Vocation
Rest Is Not Something You Work at
The Importance of Vulnerability in Leadership
Is God Necessary for Vocation?
15 Quotes to Deepen Your Understanding of Vocation
Is Vocation the Key to Revitalizing Higher Education?
Do I Need a Job to Be Able to Work for God?
Economics
Imagining Humane (Household) Economies
Redeeming Capitalism is an Uphill Battle
Can Microfinance Really Help the Poor?
Are We Going in Circles Concerning Freedom and Economic Growth?
Community
Mediated by Christ: A Review of From Isolation to Community
Rebuilding Community After College
Community Is More than Just ‘Being There’
Literary Analysis (of films, books, and other literature broadly defined)
They Stood On Their Feet [The Slumbering Host]
Welcome to the Gift of Condescension [Welcome to the N.H.K.]
Ahead of the Curve: A Reflection on the Joker’s Terrible Insight [The Dark Knight]
The Weight of Delayed Glory [The Diary of a Country Priest]
In God’s Good Time – An Analysis of Steins;Gate (Part One)
In God’s Good Time – An Analysis of Steins;Gate (Part Two)
In God’s Good Time – An Analysis of Steins;Gate (Part Three)
Is ‘The Hobbit’ Marxist?
Planetarian: An Analysis (Part One)
Planetarian: An Analysis (Part Two)
Planetarian: An Analysis (Part Three)
Miscellaneous
Is Martin Luther in Purgatory?
Newly Published Essays, Memoirs Give Insight into C.S. Lewis and His Circle
James D. K. Clark 