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Theories of Modernity
In an essay on “Two Theories of Modernity,” Charles Taylor distinguishes between cultural and a-cultural theories of…
Beyond Monogamy
First gays were oppressed by being excluded from marriage. Now they are oppressed for being confined to…
Scotus’s Sacramental Occasionalism
Richard Cross’s 1999 Duns Scotus in the Great Medieval Thinkers series is an excellent, concise introduction to…
No Peace with Wicked Law
Those who think an amended C-14, with some regulatory tightening and some provision for religious or conscientious…
No Apology for Bach’s Theology
Bach’s Major Vocal Works: Music, Drama, Liturgyby markus ratheyyale, 256 pages, $35 A s the cantor of…
Rhetorical Timing
In the introduction to Rhetoric and Kairos, editor Phillip Sipiora notes that “kairos first appeared in the…
Multiple Modernities
“Classic theories of modernization, from the 1950s,” write the editors of Reflections on Multiple Modernities, “identified the…
Rhyme and Reason
Hymns are chimerical critters. Their bodies are made of poetry, and their breath is music. The natural…
Jerusalem’s Jasper Walls
Jerusalem descends from heaven a jeweled bride, with the luminosity of a precious stone, a “crystal-clear jasper”…
Shakespeare and Chivalry
In the Weekly Standard, Paul Cantor explains that both Shakespeare and Cervantes aimed their writing at a…
What We’ve Been Reading—4.29.16
Matthew Schmitz In anticipation of a film adaptation by Martin Scorsese (due this fall), I read Shusaku…
Why I’m Still a Sucker for John Kasich
I just sent the John Kasich presidential campaign another $100 contribution today. A grain of sand from…
Marriage is Not a Social Convention
In a Web Exclusive article today, I elaborate problems that I see in Amoris Laetitia. Here on…
Bring Us To God
Peter tells us that Jesus was the “just” man who suffered for the sins of the “unjust,”…
Donne and Sacramental Poetics
Sophie Read’s Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England examines six early modern English poets…
