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God’s Bounded Freedom
According to Rowan Williams (Arius), the central concern is with the freedom of God’s will. Arius insists…
David’s Sons
1 Chronicles 2 gives a family tree for Judah. The following chapter focuses in on the royal…
Congregational Singing in Medieval Liturgy
In his book on Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism, Joseph Herl argues that, though Luther advocated congregational…
By Any Other Name
Lauruseugene vodolazkinoneworld, 352 pp, $18 And the knowledge of names,” Socrates explains to Hermogenes in the Cratylus,…
Anglicans, North and South
Peter Berger recently analyzed the state of the Anglican communion in The American Interest. The missionaries who…
Music and Storytelling in Pericles
Pericles is a drama of grief, loss, despair, ultimately a drama of joy, recovery and hope. At…
Unity, Equality, Harmony
A friend pointed me to this remarkable statement from Augustine’s de doctrina Christiana. Augustine is distinguishing between…
The Jeweler’s Shop, John Paul II, and the Joy of Holiness
Near the beginning of The Jeweler’s Shop, by Karol Wotjyla (the future John Paul II), one of…
What We’ve Been Reading—3.11.16
Mark Bauerlein Daniel Asia has edited the proceedings of a conference held in March 2014 at the…
The Last Waltz?
Reading Janik and Toulmin’s Wittgenstein’s Vienna a few years ago, I was struck at how oblivious the…
Apocalyptic Evangelicalism
Matthew Avery Sutton’s American Apocalypse tells the story of American Evangelicalism by telling the story of premillennial…
State Capitalism
Joshua Kurlantzick defines State Capitalism as “countries whose government has a controlling ownership stake in more than…
Angels and Men
My daughter MargaretAnn wrote a paper for school on angels in the book of Psalms. She observed…
First Links — 3.11.16
How Much Should Lent Hurt?Father Robert McTeigue, SJ, Aleteia The Renewal of Metaphysics and the Rebirth of…
Social Sins in Lent
The season of Lent is a time of meditation and self-denial, as Christians join with Jesus in…
