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Ecclesiocentrism
by: Peter Leithart

Ecclesiocentrism is both a theoretical framework and a practical agenda for a Christian politics after liberalism.

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Artificial Intelligence in the City of God
Jonathan Barlow
No. 46
The Obscene Realm of Biblical Euphemism and Dysphemism
Matt Albanese
No. 45
The Beginning and End of Poetry
John Higgins
No. 44
The Divine Council
Christopher Kou
No. 43
What Obergefell Did Not, and Could Not, Do
Jeff Shafer
No. 42
The Baptist Future?
Jackson Waters
No. 41
“Working At Home” In Cultural-Historical Perspective
Aston Fearon
No. 40
Free Trade, Economic Nationalism, and America's Future
Samuel Gregg
No. 39
Reforming Christian Theo-political Witness to Muslims
Joseph Abdelmalik
No. 38
The Preferences and Duties of Love in the Biblical Tradition
Rich Lusk
No. 37
Church Planting: Multiplying the Light of Christ
Drew Knowles
No. 36
Toward an Ecclesiocentric Liberalism
Ben Peterson
No. 35
Has Christianity Been Good for Women?
Gerald Hiestand
No. 34
The Horror to End All Horrors
Justin Lee
No. 33
Buildings, Polis, Landscape, Cosmos: Two Counter-Cultural Christian Humanist Academic Case Studies
Philip Bess
No. 32
Biblical Functional Medicine : Pursuing Wellbeing Instead of Healthcare
Dr. Randy James
No. 31
Lay Musicians in the Church
Brittany Hurd
No. 30
Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament
Ralph Allan Smith
No. 29
Why I Hate Communion Rails
Arthur Kay
No. 28
The Eclipse of the Word: Five Theses on Apophaticism
Timothy Troutner
No. 27
‘Rules’ for Theological Engagement with the Sciences
Michael Hanby
No. 26
The Ecclesiocentric Alternative to National Conservativism
James R. Rogers
No. 25
Ancient Wisdom for Christian Dissidents
Jeff Meyers
No. 24
The Church's Book
Alastair Roberts
No. 23
The Highest Form of Narrative Art
Brittany Hurd
No. 22
Why Bother With Biblical Law?
Jonathan Burnside
No. 21
Whether There is a Moral Obligation to Disobey the Coercive Mandates
Douglas Farrow
No. 20
Proclaim
Tim Nichols & Joe Anderson
No. 19
Bodies and the Body of Christ
Stephen Long
No. 18
Triune Creator
Peter Leithart
No. 17
Investigating Sexual Identity
Alastair Roberts
No. 16
Forming Redemptive Communities Outside the Digital Public Sphere
Jeffrey Bilbro
No. 15
Against the New Nationalism
Pater Edmund Waldstein
No. 14
Poetry and the News
James Matthew Wilson
No. 13
The Manosphere and the Church
Aaron Renn
No. 12
Models, Mentors, and Rules of Reading
Peter Leithart
No. 11
The Nihilism of Modern Medicine
Kimbell Kornu
No. 10
Secularity and the Problem of Church Music
John Ahern
No. 9
A Time for Reckoning: Facing Truth on the Path to Unity
Vincent Bacote
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In Defence of The Sitcom
James Cary
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Rethinking Israel
Gerald R. McDermott
No. 6
The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity
Ryan Mullins
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True Hospitality and the Immigration Debate
Alastair Roberts
No. 4
Moral and Ritual Knowing
Dru Johnson
No. 3
The One City of God
Peter Leithart
No. 2
Paths to Human Maturity
David Field
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