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Happy New Year! I am writing to thank you, our readers, for your generous contributions during the…
Anti-Kantian
Drawing on the work of CS Peirce, Giovanni Maddalena (The Philosophy of Gesture) argues that pragmatism must…
Doctrina sacra
The Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas has a clear surface structure. A first part, two parts of…
Tribes, Tongues, Peoples, Nations
In his Climax of Prophecy, Richard Bauckham’s devotes a long, complicated, fascinating chapter to an analysis of the phrase…
Gifts, Sex, and the State Legislature
A Missouri state assembly bill sponsored by Representative Bart Korman (R-Montgomery County) would require lobbyists to disclose…
First Links — 1.8.16
Who Came Down From the Stars? The Baby God, That’s Who! Roseanne T. Sullivan, Dappled Things The…
Unfinished Empire
“‘Empire’ is a grand word,” write John Darwin at the beginning of his Unfinished Empire. On the ground,…
Premillennial Time
Premillennialism – the view that Jesus returns to reign in person at the beginning of a literal one-thousand-year…
Come to the Feast
Joseph Mangina (Revelation, 248) summarizes David Barr’s (Tales of the End) analysis of the parallels between Revelation…
Orthodoxy Without Christ
Sergei Chapnin, author of the First Things article “A Church of Empire” was recently fired from his post at…
The Great American Symphony
When Dvorak’s New World Symphony debuted in New York, it was hailed as a masterpiece, the American…
Do Not
Four times in Revelation, John is directly told not to do something. When he falls at the…
The Politics of Moral Denunciation
We’ve all heard that Donald Trump has strong support from working class white males. Apparently he’s broadly…
The Missionaries and the Empire
Responding to Eugene McCarraher, John Milbank gives a brief overview of the complex interactions of European imperial powers, the…
The Armenian Christmas Pudding
In what is becoming an annual tradition, I offer readers of this blog the recipe for a…
