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Biblical Truth
Dru Johnson’s Knowledge By Ritual defends the thesis that we come to know—to recognize and to discern,…
Briefly Noted
Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movementby sue ellen browder ignatius, 232 pages,…
Sing Him Back Home
The day Merle Haggard died, I found myself talking to a friend who has served as a…
Conversing with Ether
The Givenness of Things: Essaysby marilynne robinsonfarrar, straus and giroux, 304 pages, $26 Why is it that…
17 and 26
CJ Labuschagne (Numerical Secrets of the Bible) discovers repeated numero-literary uses of the numbers 17 and 26…
Hodge-Nevin
In the mid-19th century, Princeton’s Charles Hodge engaged in a public debate with the Mercersburg theologian John…
Confident Pluralism: A Response
I am grateful for Professor Carl Trueman’s engagement with Confident Pluralism, even though, as his review makes…
Approaching God
In his contribution to Ritual and Metaphor: Sacrifice in the Bible, Christian Eberhart points out that the…
Handles
During Wittgenstein’s hiatus from philosophy in the 1920s, he worked for an architect to build a home…
John Williamson Nevin, Public Theologian
John Williamson Nevin is remembered, when he is remembered at all, for his anti-revivalist and pro-sacramental writings.…
The Lady, Or the Lobster?
I hesitate to recommend that you see The Lobster, since this romantic comedy about a man facing…
Simon, Son of John
After sharing a breakfast of fish at the shore of Tiberius with his disciples, Jesus speaks directly…
Natural-Born Cyborgs
Human beings,” asserts Andy Clark at the beginning of his Natural-Born Cyborgs, “are natural- born cyborgs” (3).…
On the Creed
Of late, many within the evangelical Protestant world have been calling for some form of ressourcement, renewed…
What We’ve Been Reading—5.27.16
Matthew Schmitz Take the train to Brussels, walk across the Warendepark, and into the Berlaymont building. This…
