On the Modern Project

Faith, Fact, and False Dichotomies

Cosmos and Apocalypse

Physics, prophecy, and the myth of Newton's clockwork universe

From: The Unknown Newton

Church, Heresy, and Pure Religion

Newton's unorthodox theology and his project to restore Christianity

From: The Unknown Newton

The Book of Nature, the Book of Scripture

Reconciling natural philosophy with biblical literalism

From: The Unknown Newton

The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers

The unpublished manuscripts and their author's changing image

From: The Unknown Newton

In Defense of Prejudice, Sort of

Modernity and Our American Heresies

How our Puritan and Lockean founders built better than they knew

The Optimistic Science of Leibniz

On his encyclopedic project of physics and faith

Evolution and Ethics, Revisited

How “Darwin’s bulldog” opposed social Darwinism

Fantasy and the Buffered Self

The genre offers re-enchantment without risk.