The Scriptorium: Where Big Ideas Undergo the Digital Martyrdom

Engaging key issues in culture, theology, philosophy, art, and politics from a reasonable, rational Christian perspective

Scriptorium authors

Allen Yeh

Allen Yeh is a missiologist who specializes in Latin America and China. He also has other academic interests in history, classical music, homiletics, social justice, and Jonathan Edwards. He earned his B.A. from Yale, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell, M.Th. from Edinburgh, and D.Phil. from Oxford. Despit... Read More...

Fred Sanders

Fred Sanders is an evangelical thinker with a passion for the great tradition of Christian theology. You probably can’t believe how interested he is in the doctrine of the Trinity, but he is also interested in the visual arts, iconography, the history of ideas, literature, and most other subjects ... Read More...

Greg Peters

Greg Peters is a theologian who is trained in history and focused on spirituality. He has done extensive work on a medieval writer named Peter of Damascus, who you don’t need to feel guilty about never having heard of. Dr. Peters is Assistant Professor of Medieval and Spiritual Theology in the Tor... Read More...

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Jamie Y. Whitaker Campbell

Jamie Y. Whitaker Campbell is a an assistant professor in the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. After earning her B.A. in Humanities from Biola University, Prof. Campbell moved to Washington, D.C., where she earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, she h... Read More...

John Mark Reynolds

John Mark Reynolds is the founder and director of the Torrey Honors Institute, and Associate Professor of Philosophy, at Biola University. In 1996 he received his Ph. D. in Philosophy from the University of Rochester. Read More...

JP Moreland

J.P. Moreland is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. Dr. Moreland received his B.S. in Chemistry (with honors) from the University of Missouri, his M.A. in Philosophy (with highest honors) from the University of California, Riverside, his Th... Read More...

Matt Jenson

Matt Jenson is a systematic theologian specializing in sin. Really. But in so doing, he is motivated by a desire to understand what it means to be human in terms of the relationships for which we were created and in which we live, move and have our being. So he likes to talk about God, too, and chur... Read More...

Melissa Schubert

If old school philology came back in style, Melissa Schubert would aspire to join its ranks. For now, she happily teaches and studies great literature, especially Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. She is an assistant professor in the Torrey Honors Institute, and she won't let it go to her head that ... Read More...

Paul Spears

Paul Spears is an educational theorist who studies how philosophical and theological commitments shape the way teachers and students behave in the classroom. He has given special attention to the influence of the German research University model on American higher education, and to the influence tha... Read More...

R.A. Torrey

R. A. Torrey (1856-1928) was the first academic dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Torrey had two earned degrees from Yale and a year of graduate work in German universities, along with later honorary doctorates. As a world-travelling evangelist, he was the successor to Dwight L. Moody, w... Read More...

Scriptorium's Purpose

The Scriptorium is the new media daily of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. Established by John Mark Reynolds, Paul Spears, and Fred Sanders in 2005, the Scriptorium seeks to combat what we perceive to be the decline of a reasonable pursuit of the Christian faith and the transition away from the use of the mind in the Christian journey. This decline is causing Christians to lose their confidence in the truth claims of Christianity. As a result, Christians are also losing their ability to appreciate the depth, richness, and beauty of the works of God in the world.

By actively engaging in the conversations of today's culture and challenging the predominant, non-Christian worldviews therein, the Scriptorium is a winsome, thoughtful, active Christian voice in the marketplace of ideas.

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