Whatever Became of Sin – 2014 Edition

Dr. Cornelius “Neal” Plantinga, Jr. is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Calvin College. He was formerly president of Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he was also a professor of systematic theology. Plantinga received his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has written several books, including Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin (1995), a Christianity Today “Book of the Year” in 1996, and Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living (Eerdmans, 2002), a Christianity Today “Book of the Year” in 2003.

Ross Douthat joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2009. Previously, he was a senior editor at The Atlantic and a blogger for theatlantic.com. He is also the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class (2005) and the co-author, with Reihan Salam, of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (2008). He is also the film critic for National Review.

His newest book is titled Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. He charts institutional Christianity’s decline from a vigorous, mainstream, and bipartisan faith through the culture wars of the 1960s and 1970s to the polarizing debates of the present day.