Theology

Russell Moore’s Favorite Books of 2024

The top 10 picks of CT’s editor in chief range from dystopian fiction to philosophy, with a dose of Sabbath poems, Inklings, and country music.

Happy Thankless Thanksgiving

Paul hardly ever thanked anyone directly. What can his refrain “I thank God for you” teach us about gratitude?

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How a Dark Sense of Humor Can Save You from Cynicism

A bit of gallows humor can remind us that death does not have the final word.

Yours, Mine, and ‘Our Father’

In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus calls his divided followers to pursue unity as the family of God.

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How to Get Through the Next Four Years

The nonstop news cycle will be crazy. You don’t have to be.

The Consolation of Providence

The doctrine of God’s wise and sovereign governance doesn’t make history easy to interpret. It makes living through it endurable.

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Let Heaven and Nature Wail

In this season, a baby’s cry can say more than a simple “Merry Christmas.”

The Incarnation Is More than the Manger

How an ancient African bishop championed the incarnation’s redemptive arc.

THEOLOGIANS IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY

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Anselm

Reluctant bishop with a remarkable mind

Martin Luther

Passionate reformer

Thomas Aquinas

The brilliant “dumb ox”

Augustine of Hippo

Architect of the Middle Ages

John Calvin

Father of the Reformed faith

Athanasius

Five-time exile for fighting “orthodoxy”

Karl Barth

Courageous theologian

Paul’s Prescription for a Polarized Church

The apostle’s ethic of welcome challenges our personal, social, and political instincts.

Biblical Beasts and Where to Find Them

What do scriptural accounts of monstrous beings like Leviathan and Behemoth tell us about our experience of the sacred?

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Election Day Can Help Break Our Addiction to Hope

Real hope is not an argument, an opioid, or a sunnier form of despair. It’s a person named Jesus.

Featured Books

Becoming Athletes of Attention in an Age of Distraction

by John Cassian, Jamie Kreiner

The Quiet Faith Behind Little House on the Prairie

by John J. Fry, Mark A. Noll

Jordan Peterson Loves God’s Word. But What About God?

by Jordan B. Peterson

The Traditional Missionary Model Doesn’t Fit Today’s Hindu Diaspora

by Ashok Kumar, Ashok Kumar

Tending and Keeping the Christian Past in an ‘Ahistoric Age’

by Sarah Irving-Stonebraker

The Black Church Has Five Theological Anchors

by Walter R. Strickland II

Does Jesus Tell Us to Prioritize Caring for Our Own?

The story of Jesus and the Canaanite woman is provocative, but for different reasons than we might think.

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The ‘Least of These’ and the Quest for a Post-Christian Conscience

Human suffering should not cause us to categorize our neighbor but to be one.

My Friend, Bill Pannell

A reflection on the trailblazing Black theologian and his influence on American evangelicalism.

Which Church in Revelation Is Yours Like?

From the lukewarm Laodicea to the overachieving Ephesus, these seven ancient congregations struggled with relatable problems.

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The Bible Doesn’t Fit an Information Age

Algorithms strip us of mystery. The Gospels restore our ability to be astonished by the truth.

5 Lessons Christians Can Learn from the Barmen Declaration

How a wartime confession resisted Hitler’s Nazification of the German church, and why its principles are still relevant today.

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A Hurricane Doesn’t Tell Us Who to Hate

What natural disasters reveal about God and neighbor.

Public Theology Project

How the ‘Jezebel Spirit’ Keeps Empowering Sin

The phrase is convenient for demonizing women—while teaching people to excuse immorality.

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