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Formalist Natural Law

Peter J. Leithart

I previously commented on RJ Snell’s The Perspective of Love, which offers “natural law in a new…

Apocalypse in Social-Scientific Perspective

Peter J. Leithart

Commentators have used social scientific theories and models to try to explicate the social setting of biblical…

Abstraction and Atonement Theory

Peter J. Leithart

Atonement theories abound. Christus Victor says Jesus triumphed over Satan; sacrificial theories say that Jesus offered Himself…

Beauty and Faith in the Age of Twitter

The Editors

Last week a study appeared in Computers and Human Behavior under the title “The brain in your pocket:…

First Links—3.16.15

The Editors

Memo to Supreme Court: State Marriage Laws Are Constitutional Gene Schaerr & Ryan T. Anderson, The Heritage…

Incarnational Theology

Peter J. Leithart

The Incarnation of God by John Clark and Marcus Peter Johnson is an excellent book. This accessible…

The Disappearing Body

Peter J. Leithart

The dead have gone missing from the realm of the living,” observes Candi Cann in Virtual Afterlives (xi).…

Post-Post-Secular Politics

Peter J. Leithart

William Viestenz’s By the Grace of God joins a growing list of books that, invoking Carl Schmitt and…

A Tale of Two Ecumenisms

Carl R. Trueman

First Things is presenting a set of reflections on Evangelicals and Catholics Together, originally commissioned for publication on…

The Poisonous Accusation of Racism

Matthew J. Franck

Decades ago when I was a graduate student, I found myself in one of those extended bull…

Threatened for Her Zeal for the Faith

Matthew J. Franck

While Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone holds the line on the teaching of orthodox moral doctrines of the Catholic…

First Links — 3.13.15

The Editors

Secularists vs. Providentialists Richard M. Reinsch II, The American Conservative What Scares the New Atheists John Gray,…

Giving God

Peter J. Leithart

God Himself is a Giver of Gifts. His eternal life is a life of give and counter-gift.…

In the Image of the Giver

Peter J. Leithart

Human beings are made in the image of the giving God, and this suggests that giving, reception,…

Members for Righteousness

Peter J. Leithart

We die to sin in baptism, Paul says. Liberated from sin, we are to devote the members…