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Structure in 1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles begins with a list of 13 names, from Adam to Japheth. From Genesis 10, we…
Liturgical Orientalism
Robert Taft (“Eastern Presuppositions” and Western Liturgical Reform) credits the Melkite patriarch and bishops with exercising a…
Separability and Situatedness
Marcia Pally’s Commonwealth and Covenant is a study of the “economics, politics, and theologies of relationality.” She…
Economy of Force
Patricia Owens summarizes her recent Economy of Force in a symposium at The Disorder of Things. Her…
Debtor Nation
“In 2010, Americans had total debt outstanding of $52.4 trillion, more than three-and-a-half times the country’s gross…
Scripture in Early Christianity
James Kugel lays out four assumptions about Scripture shared by Bible readers in the early centuries of…
Translating Dostoevsky
In a 2005 New Yorker piece, David Remnick surveyed the efforts to bring Dostoevsky and Tolstoy into…
Nothing to Celebrate
The seriousness of a society’s funeral rites speaks volumes about the seriousness of a society, for the…
You Are A Temple
Yahweh descended from Sinai to take up residence in the tabernacle, to make His home in the…
Criticism v. Correction
In the March 2016 print edition of First Things, RR Reno explains the limits of “critical thinking,”…
The Young and the Restless
I admit a bias at the outset: In 20008, the US elected a President younger than I,…
God of the Depressed
Christians don’t talk enough about depression. Emotional pain, for one thing, can be hard to share. Despair…
Eucharist and Atonement
Early Christians expended huge amounts of energy and intellectual subtlety in working out the implications of the…
Invisible Hands
Once upon a time, Europeans believed that the order of the world was the result of God’s…
Law of Sanctuary, Law of Society
The Ten Words (Exodus 20) are organized in two sets of five commandments, one pertaining to our…
