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I am now sitting in front of my laptop and staring at a text on the screen. In other words, I have a perception of it. My perception is from a particular perspective. However, I can easily switch from one perspective to another. Thus, at one moment, I am zooming in on single words and […]
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The epistle of 2 Peter is not merely a polemic against false teachers; it is founded upon a compelling theological vision of life with God. In my commentary on 2 Peter, I argue that the letter’s ethical foundation lies in the concept articulated in 1:3-4: that believers “become sharers of the divine nature.” This principle, […]
Read MoreOne of the outcomes of my examination of 2 Peter is challenging the widely held scholarly designation of this letter as a “testament.” This genre classification has been profoundly influential, particularly following the work of Richard Bauckham, which often leads to the conclusion that 2 Peter is a “transparent fiction”—a pseudonymous work whose lack of […]
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Let me describe the activities of an organization leading advocacy for liberal democracy in Zambia in recent years. When politicians spoke of changing the country’s constitution to end presidential term limits, it organized a civil society coalition to protest. When the police threw the opposition leader in jail for four months on charges of treason, […]
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Our current understanding of philosophy is a relatively recent invention. It took shape in late eighteenth-century Germany, when a small group of scholars redefined what philosophy was and how its history should be told. In his “What Counted as Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance?” (2013), Christopher Celenza mentions Johann Brucker, who, in his Historia Critica […]
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How do scientists interpret the results of an experiment? How do they draw conclusions from experiments? In January of 1939, the young Alan Hodgkin decided to break in some new lab equipment and he had a simple question in mind. He accepted the then-standard view—based on Julius Bernstein’s membrane hypotheses—that when an axon is depolarized, […]
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It is a commonplace too often taken for granted that the Enlightenment––in particular Kant’s grounding of morality in reason––was a failure. For some, the Enlightenment’s attempt to clear away all superstition left only an empty subjectivism and materialism culminating in atomistic nihilism. For others, the Enlightenment was just one more mask in the European will […]
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I have been writing about Cuban music and popular culture for some time, as an outsider. It is a fraught position: being based in the United States, strongly attracted to Cuban heritage, trying to undertake rigorous research and pursue sensitive topics while frequently being perceived as someone who may have an ax to grind as […]
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