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God Speaking to God
CJ Labuschagne (Numerical Secrets of the Bible) highlights the use of 11-fold literary patterns in the Pentateuch.…
The Center
Stewart Alsop begins his book on Washington, DC, The Center, by observing that DC wasn’t always the…
Creation and Recreation
CJ Labuschagne points out in his Numerical Secrets of the Bible that “Exod 39:32–43 tells how the…
A Movement, Hijacked
Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movementby sue ellen browderignatius, 232 pages, $22.95…
Plato’s Compositions
JB Kennedy’s The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues is a kind of Bible Code for classical philosophy.…
The Latino Marriage Paradox
Eduardo and Graciela Valdez met on the dance floor of a New York salsa club in 2000.…
Saintly Defiance on Stage
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
Mercersburg theology has a small but devoted following among evangelically-oriented Calvinists. It was a nineteenth-century movement centered…
The Crisis of Theological Education
Back in the 1990s, seminaries seemed to be thriving. A 1994 cover piece in Christianity Today reported,…
Triple Body
Henri de Lubac’s Corpus Mysticum is a densely detailed study of the changing punctuation of the medieval…
Singing Numbers
Some gleanings from CJ Labuschagne’s Numerical Secrets of the Bible on the Psalms. On Psalm 23: “the…
First Links — 5.20.16
The Geeks Can’t Defeat DeathDavid Mills, Aleteia Catholic Archdiocese to Offer 12 Weeks Paid Parental LeaveDavid Gibson,…
Baptism as Canon
Paul begins his first letter to the Corinthians with a scathing denunciation of Corinthian factionalism. He poses…
Numerical Secrets
It appears that the biblical text was composed according to preconceived models and patterns shaped by certain…
Hobbes on Transubstantiation
One of the faults of discourses, argues Hobbes (Leviathan, 1.8), occurs when “men speak such words as,…