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Flight

Peter J. Leithart

Monastic flight, Rowan Williams emphasizes (Silence and Honey Cakes), wasn’t “running away from responsibility or from relationships.”…

The Problem With Sacraments

Peter J. Leithart

The problem with sacramental theology is that it’s sacramental theology. That is, the problem is the abstraction…

When God Talks Back

Peter J. Leithart

TM Luhrmann (When God Talks Back) wants to explain believers to contemporary unbelievers. How can orthodox believers…

Capitalism Beyond Caricatures

R. R. Reno

Earlier this week, Samuel Gregg penned a rebuttal to aspects of David Hart’s essay in the June/July…

Easy Sainthood

Peter J. Leithart

Rowan Williams concludes a brief summary of the patristic debates about the double/single will of Jesus by…

Ministering Sacraments by Faith

Peter J. Leithart

For many Christians, sacraments are locked in a winner-take-all battle with faith. Are we reconciled to God…

Some Thoughts on Yesterday’s Decision in the Contraception Mandate Case

Mark Movsesian

A few quick observations on the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Zubik v. Burwell, the contraception mandate…

First Links — 5.17.16

The Editors

Is It Time for a US Christian Democracy Party?Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Aleteia The Sisters Who Treat the…

Why Do We Want Houses?

Peter J. Leithart

Peter King begins his Private Dwelling by posing what he describes as simple, silly, obvious questions about…

Sensitivity to Intrinsic Rightness

Peter J. Leithart

Charles Taylor’s The Language Animal is a defense of HHH against HLC. That is, he thinks the…

A Community of the Fearless

Peter J. Leithart

Monks fled. They did not flee from community or contact with others. They fled in order to…

What We’ve Been Reading—5.13.16

The Editors

Mark Bauerlein After reading the list of demands that black students at Oberlin College issued to the…

Benjamin and Art’s Disenchantment

Peter J. Leithart

Walter Benjamin had no totalizing philosophical system. He was an essayist, admits Ranier Rochlitz (The Disenchantment of…

Shakespeare on Sacraments

Peter J. Leithart

In their essay on the Eucharist in Cultural Reformations, David Aers and Sarah Beckwith notes that “one…

Reformation Crucifixion

Peter J. Leithart

In the second volume of his study of the cross in Western art (The Triumph of the…