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God Speaking to God

Peter J. Leithart

CJ Labuschagne (Numerical Secrets of the Bible) highlights the use of 11-fold literary patterns in the Pentateuch.…

The Center

Peter J. Leithart

Stewart Alsop begins his book on Washington, DC, The Center, by observing that DC wasn’t always the…

Creation and Recreation

Peter J. Leithart

CJ Labuschagne points out in his Numerical Secrets of the Bible that “Exod 39:32–43 tells how the…

A Movement, Hijacked

Abigail Rine Favale

Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movementby sue ellen browderignatius, 232 pages, $22.95…

Plato’s Compositions

Peter J. Leithart

JB Kennedy’s The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues is a kind of Bible Code for classical philosophy.…

The Latino Marriage Paradox

Nicholas H. Wolfinger

Eduardo and Graciela Valdez met on the dance floor of a New York salsa club in 2000.…

Saintly Defiance on Stage

Alexi Sargeant

Jägerstätterby felix mitterertranslated by gregor thuswaldner with robert dassanowskyuniversity of new orleans, 144 pages, $13.95 Franz Jägerstätter,…

Mercersburg Theology, Eucharistic Union, and Civil Society

James R. Rogers

Mercersburg theology has a small but devoted following among evangelically-oriented Calvinists. It was a nineteenth-century movement centered…

The Crisis of Theological Education

Peter J. Leithart

Back in the 1990s, seminaries seemed to be thriving. A 1994 cover piece in Christianity Today reported,…

Triple Body

Peter J. Leithart

Henri de Lubac’s Corpus Mysticum is a densely detailed study of the changing punctuation of the medieval…

Singing Numbers

Peter J. Leithart

Some gleanings from CJ Labuschagne’s Numerical Secrets of the Bible on the Psalms. On Psalm 23: “the…

First Links — 5.20.16

The Editors

The Geeks Can’t Defeat DeathDavid Mills, Aleteia Catholic Archdiocese to Offer 12 Weeks Paid Parental LeaveDavid Gibson,…

Baptism as Canon

Peter J. Leithart

Paul begins his first letter to the Corinthians with a scathing denunciation of Corinthian factionalism. He poses…

Numerical Secrets

Peter J. Leithart

It appears that the biblical text was composed according to preconceived models and patterns shaped by certain…

Hobbes on Transubstantiation

Peter J. Leithart

One of the faults of discourses, argues Hobbes (Leviathan, 1.8), occurs when “men speak such words as,…