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The Patriarch, the Pope, and the Refugee Crisis
The significance of the joint visit to the island of Lesbos, Greece, on Saturday, April 16, 2016,…
Atoning Alms
Early on in David Downs’s study of Alms and atonement in early Christianity, he offers this striking…
Sons of Levi
The genealogy of Levi is at the center of the genealogical section of 1 Chronicles. The genealogy…
Suffering Historiography
Theological investigations of Naziism are often dogged by “a subtle methodological difficulty,” writes Paul Hinlicky in Before…
The Christian Roots of Soil Stewardship Week
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” That is a truth that gets double billing…
Jesuits Respond to R. R. Reno
Dear Dr. Reno: Your First Things article “A Stubborn Givenness” (April 12, 2016) sought to explain Pope…
First Links — 4.22.16
What They Didn’t Teach You in School about Harriet TubmanEli Lehrer, National Review The Medal of St.…
Shakespeare the Conservative?
Writing at Salon, Colin MacDonald urges us to dispense with the “myth” of the conservative Shakespeare, the…
High Gospel Christology
Yesterday I wrote about the broad argument in Richard B. Hays book, Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and…
Shakespeare, Four Centuries On
This Saturday, April 23rd, marks an important anniversary: four hundred years since the death of William Shakespeare.…
Descartes, Occasionalist
According to Norman Kemp Smith (Problems in the Cartesian Philosophy), “The great achievement of Galileo and Descartes…
From Ceremony to Theater
Richard II is often cited as Shakespeare’s prime example of a divine-right king, a king by ceremony,…
Pagans and their Images
Paul’s criticism of idols in his Athens speech repeats philosophical commonplaces about the nature of God and…
Upcoming Events—4.20.16
New York: Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture: “Markets & Morality? Jewish, Catholic and Protestant Perspectives”April…
Were Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us?
I’m not entirely sure who the intended audience is for Richard B. Hays recent book, Reading Backwards:…
