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First Links—4.13.15
Civil Courage and Transcendent Truth Jordan Ballor, Public Discourse How to Navigate the Art World William O’Connor,…
Church as Sacred Place
Some of the churches that Duncan Stroik discusses in The Church Building as Sacred Place sound and look…
Dangerous Tradition
Rex Koivisto argues (One Lord, One Faith, 155-6) that all churches have traditions, including supposedly Bible-only Evangelicals.…
The Marriage Pledge
The debate over the marriage pledge has died down, but it shouldn’t be dismissed. It still has…
Springs and Rivers
Revelation is addressed to the church in a wilderness, a generation-long period between Jesus’ exaltation and the…
Liberalism and the State
Steve Pincus argues that 1688 marked the “first modern revolution. The Glorious Revolution couldn’t have taken the form it…
Pascalian Politics
Paul Griffiths (Decreation) argues that “quietism” about political interest and judgment is a sign here and now…
First Links—4.10.15
Interview with a Christian Ross Douthat, The New York Times Realism and Russia’s Fate Jack Hanson, Open…
Judaizers Left and Right
Elizabethan Puritans were regularly denounced as “Judaizers” by others in the English church. After all, they were…
Gender Arianism again
My little post on Gender Arianism created some buzz. Some of the responses missed my argument. But that…
Sacramentum et Imperator
In a 2005 article, Daniel Van Slyke explores the use of sacramentum in non-Christian writers from the…
Post-Nominalist Theology
John Milbank is no nominalist, yet in Beyond Secular Order he insists that the nominalists raised questions that could…
First Links—4.10.15
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Religious Liberty Is a Rearguard Position
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
Exultet! Pope Zosimus, The Catholic Thing Joyful Dissonance Michael Prodger, Standpoint Pound’s Metro William Logan, The New…