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Lyceum Disputation Symposiums
A Forum for Serious Theological Dialogue
What Is the Lyceum Disputation?
Essays in the Lyceum Disputation series range from traditional academic symposium essays to mid-range theses on various theological, historical, and philosophical topics. Each symposium is conducted in a spirit of charity, curiosity, critical thinking, and cheerful confessionalism.
Traditional academic symposiums are published as special issues of The Hanover Review. Below you will find our complete library of symposiums, from the most recent to the earliest, representing some of the finest theological dialogue being produced in the evangelical world today.
Academic Symposiums
All Symposiums
Symposium 01
The Reformation as Renewal
Published in The Hanover Review
Essays
- An Accidental Reformation?
- Duns Scotus, Classical Theist: A Vindication
- On Matthew Barrett's "The Reformation as Renewal"
- "Reformation as Renewal:" Recatholicizing the Reformers?
- Prolegomena to Any Future Account of Aquinas's Augustinianism
- The Bishop of Rome hath no Jurisdiction
- The Prophetic Role of the Protestant Reformation
- Contextualizing "Renewal"
- Reception of Late Medieval Scholastic Thought
Symposium 02
Metaphysics & The Christian
Essays
- Ground Rules for Christian Metaphysics
- Do Christians Need Metaphysics?
- Metaphysics and Delight
- Is there a Metaphysics of Christianity?
- On the Use of Christian Metaphysics
Symposium 03
Historical Methodology & Activism
Essays
- When Activists Do History
- A Christian Case for Activist History
- Evangelical History Overturned
- Using the Past: A Review
Symposium 04
Theonomy
Essays
- The Underlying Problem
- Historic Protestant Political Theology
- Theonomy: A Theological Critique
- Classical Reformed Theonomy
- Are There Still Theonomists?
- That One Time Theonomists Didn't Run Puritan New England
- New Covenant Fulfillment and the End of the Law
Symposium 05
Christian Platonism
Essays
- On Classical Christian Platonism
- Christian Platonism: Some Comments
- Craig Carter's Christian Platonism
- Is Arius a Christian Platonist?
- Plato is not the Point
- Which Plato? Whose Platonism?
Symposium 06
The Necessity(?) of Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Essays
- How (not) to Affirm Penal Substitutionary Atonement
- Centering the Atonement
- Why Denying Penal Substitution Need Not Impugn God's Justice
- An Analysis of the 2017 SBC Resolution
- An Early Medieval Pastor-Poet's Thoughts on the Cross
- Substitution, Justice, and Love
- Heading Backwards: Toward a Trinitarian Doctrine of PSA
Symposium 07
Baptists, Religious Liberty, & the State
Essays
- No More Nursing Fathers
- A Conscience Rightly Informed
- Is There a Baptist Contribution to Political Theology?
- The (Past, Present, and Future) Law of Religious Liberty
Symposium 08
Baptists and Slavery
Essays
- 19th Century American Baptist Response To Slavery
- Baptists, Slavery, And The Road To Civil War
- Developing A Response To The Slavery Question
- A Tale Of Two Baptist Preachers
- "We Cannot Uphold You"
Symposium 09
Baptist Distinctives
Essays
- The Regulative Principle Among Baptists
- Baptists And The Sacraments
- Regenerate Church Membership And The Incoherence Of The "Magisterial Baptist" Position
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