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First Links—4.13.15

The Editors

Civil Courage and Transcendent Truth Jordan Ballor, Public Discourse How to Navigate the Art World William O’Connor,…

Church as Sacred Place

Peter J. Leithart

Some of the churches that Duncan Stroik discusses in The Church Building as Sacred Place sound and look…

Dangerous Tradition

Peter J. Leithart

Rex Koivisto argues (One Lord, One Faith, 155-6) that all churches have traditions, including supposedly Bible-only Evangelicals.…

The Marriage Pledge

Peter J. Leithart

The debate over the marriage pledge has died down, but it shouldn’t be dismissed. It still has…

Springs and Rivers

Peter J. Leithart

Revelation is addressed to the church in a wilderness, a generation-long period between Jesus’ exaltation and the…

Liberalism and the State

Peter J. Leithart

Steve Pincus argues that 1688 marked the “first modern revolution. The Glorious Revolution couldn’t have taken the form it…

Pascalian Politics

Peter J. Leithart

Paul Griffiths (Decreation) argues that “quietism” about political interest and judgment is a sign here and now…

First Links—4.10.15

The Editors

Interview with a Christian Ross Douthat, The New York Times Realism and Russia’s Fate Jack Hanson, Open…

Judaizers Left and Right

Peter J. Leithart

Elizabethan Puritans were regularly denounced as “Judaizers” by others in the English church. After all, they were…

Gender Arianism again

Peter J. Leithart

My little post on Gender Arianism created some buzz. Some of the responses missed my argument. But that…

Sacramentum et Imperator

Peter J. Leithart

In a 2005 article, Daniel Van Slyke explores the use of sacramentum in non-Christian writers from the…

Post-Nominalist Theology

Peter J. Leithart

John Milbank is no nominalist, yet in Beyond Secular Order he insists that the nominalists raised questions that could…

First Links—4.10.15

William E. Simon Jr.

This article is coming soon… if you need the text for time-sensitive research or reference, please contact…

Religious Liberty Is a Rearguard Position

Mark Bauerlein

In Public Discourse this week is a forthright statement of religious liberty signed by five distinguished figures. It’s a…

First Links—4.8.15

The Editors

Exultet! Pope Zosimus, The Catholic Thing Joyful Dissonance Michael Prodger, Standpoint Pound’s Metro William Logan, The New…