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First Links — 12.18.15
The Wound of Beauty Gregory Wolfe, Image Modernity, Religion, and Morality George Weigel, Yoram Hazony, Tikvah Elijah…
What Immigrants Do To Language
The history of language is the a history of “extinction,” writes John McWhorter at The Atlantic. But there’s…
Cautions on Ressourcement
In an essay on Congar’s Tradition and Traditions in the first volume of God Without Measure, John Webster asks…
Come!
Ryan Leif Hansen (Silence and Praise) observes that the command to “Come” frames the book of Revelation.…
Teacher of Greece
The Iliad was the virtual Bible of the Greek world. As Plato says in the Republic, some Greeks (not…
Dualist Apocalyptic?
Ryan Leif Hansen doesn’t think it’s accurate to say that apocalyptic depictions of evil are “dualistic” (Silence…
John Knox
John Knox’s influence on the modern world has been enormous. He shaped the Scottish Reformed church, and…
The Ecclesiastical Failure of Christian America
Ross Douthat’s Erasmus lecture, “A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,” and Carl Trueman’s column, “Is There A Crisis…
Seeking Submissions for Anthology “Wounded in the House of a Friend”
I am seeking contributions for an anthology by Catholics who have continued to practice their faith despite mistreatment…
The Common-Sensical Berkeley, 2
Berkeley is an anti-abstractionist. What is abstraction? Berkeley is basically taking on Locke, who argues (in Berkeley’s…
Along the Trail of Trade
According to TLS reviewer David Morgan, Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads is the fruit of teenage dissatisfaction with…
Walking the Walk
The gospel is all about teaching us to walk. Once we walked, zombie-like, in death and sin…
Human Rights As a Religion
Check out this superb essay on the Heritage website by Roger Scruton, “The Future of European Civilization:…
Confessing Trinity
The point of Trinitarian theology is not simply that there are three instead of one. We can’t…
The Common-Sensical Bishop Berkeley, 1
. He There is often a gap between the popular perception of a philosopher’s teaching and his own…
