Blog Roundup: Oversimplified Misreadings

It’s Wednesday! Let’s all take a nap.

Peter Leithart is reading Wayne Cristaudo’s book, Religion, Redemption and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking Revolution of Franz Rozenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy . To that end, he’s written up several posts about it: “Living God,” “Bound for freedom,” “Moralist and Creator,” “Where Philosophy Comes From,” and, finally, “Love Your Enemies.”

Dr. Boli hates your phone .

George Weigel wants us to stop misreading John Courtney Murray , while Richard Antall wants us to stop oversimplifying Oscar Romero . And Nathaniel Peters wants us to stop doing both of those things to John Henry Newman .

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