Why do we need to recover from modernity?

Tom Oden’s influential return to orthodox faith.

Bob Webber and the “ancient future” of American evangelicalism

Nouvelle théologie and The Catholic retrieval of mystery

The Mercersburg Theology presented Reformed Christians with a link to the past—if they chose to use it

Modern thinkers who have turned to the early church weren’t the first to do so.

Readers respond to Christian History

An attempt to understand a movement that has sought to combine the best aspects of evangelical and sacramental Christianity, grounded in the Bible and guided by the first few Christian centuries.

An excerpt from Oden's Ancient Christian Commentary

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century renewal and cooperation

A call to an ancient evangelical future

The friendship of Richard Foster and Dallas Willard and the birth of Renovaré

an excerpt from Spirit of the Disciplines

Attempts to recover the spirit of the first Christians are almost as old as Christianity itself, but we focus here on those that arose in some way as a response to problems of the modern world.

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council for the express purpose of addressing the issues of modernity

Evangelicals and Catholics seek to work out theological statements both can agree upon

The Lutheran tendency to defy denominational categories has been a strength as they seek renewal 

Kathleen Norris thought she would make her name as a poet. Instead her greatest legacy came from her spiritual memoirs.

Many different approaches to recover from modern amnesia

Recent organizations that have attempted to be forces of renewal and Christian unity while maintaining a commitment to historic orthodoxy.

We asked some pastors and professors to reflect on what it means to recover from modern amnesia and how the ancient and medieval faith can inform the church of the future

Recommendations on modern amnesia from CH editorial staff and this issue’s authors