Theology
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A Commonplace Book
Awhile back, I started keeping a commonplace book. Commonplace book is an odd phrase, perhaps, because what…
Jews as the Romans Saw Them
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by martin goodman knopf, 624 pages, $35 When I…
The Crescent and the Scimitar
The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh…
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis
This lecture was delivered as the fourth annual Erasmus Lecture. In Wladimir Solowjew’s History of the Antichrist,…
Listening to Benedict
That’s the main thing¯to listen to what he says. I expect the texts for the public events…
AIDS and the Churches: Getting the Story Right
Responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic are often driven not by evidence but by ideology, stereotypes, and…
Smelly Olde England
I lived, while in England, at a confluence—the intersection of a pedestrian lane, which led to three…
Letters—April 2008
The Moral Law Reading Robert George’s “Law and Moral Purpose” (January 2008), I found myself nodding in…
The Magdalenes
Magdala on the Via Maris / hosted the caravans; / Egyptian traffic”glass in ingots...
Poetics and Power
A Treatise of Civil Power by Geoffrey Hill Yale University Press, 64 pages, $16 (paper) In 1659,…
The Resurrection of the Body
A neighbor passing by the widow’s house / Stopped dead on seeing him in the garage /…
The Possibilities and Perils in Being a Really Smart Bishop
The Public Square The subject is bishops as theologians and theologians as bishops. The Christian world is…
Flipside
For joy like this, the only words I know / I’ve had to borrow from the other…
The Pious Infidel
Though the most Deistic of the Founding Fathers, even Jefferson was not a full-fledged Deist if we…
The Classical Age
Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer University of California Press, 251 pages, $24.95 It’s perhaps…
