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Aping the Middle Ages
For medievals, allegory wasn’t simply a way of dealing with texts or a method of writing. It…
Royalist Revolution
In his 2014 study of The Royalist Revolution, Eric Nelson presents the counter-intuitive case that the American revolutionaries…
Prophet and Covenant
Prophets always initiate new covenants. They end one set of covenantal arrangements and bring in new ones.…
An Almost Godly Green
Happy Earth Day! Easter it is not, but this niche “holiday” does afford an opportunity to reflect…
Thomas More, Villain
When it comes to up-market historical fiction, nobody delivers like the Tudors. There’s so much entertainment value…
First Links—4.21.15
Will Pope Francis Break the Church? Ross Douthat, The Atlantic The Roots of a Reforming Conservatism Yuval Levin, Modern…
False Prophet
The New Testament contains a number of warnings about false prophets (pseudoprophetes), often in “apocalyptic” contexts (Matthew…
Touch Not the Anointed
“Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” That is how Psalm 105:15 summarizes the…
Passover Firstfruits
Psalm 105:36 describes the exodus as the Lord’s striking of the “firstborn” of Egypt, “the firstfuits of…
First Links—4.20.15
Islamic State Shoots and Beheads Thirty Ethiopian Christians in Libya Sylvia Westall, Reuters Myths About Attending College…
A Triad of Trinities
Revelation 12-13 describe draconian and bestial attacks on the saints. The enemies form a triad. Indeed, they…
Stabilized Passion
In his contribution to Radical Secularization, John Milbank contests Habermas’s Kantian notion of public reason, arguing that reason…
Reckoning Time in Genesis
Jeffery Leonard ends a Review of Biblical Literature (4/15) review of BC Hodge’s Revisiting the Days of Genesis…
The Failure of Gay Marriage
In a 2009 piece in The Weekly Standard, Sam Schulman argues that gay marriage replicates “a very limited,…
Sir Martin Gilbert, Historian of Hope
When British historian Martin Gilbert died earlier this year at the age of seventy-eight, the world lost…
