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Rejoicing in Lament
In the terrible trial scene in Till We Have Faces, the gods strip away layer after layer of…
First Links — 2.17.15
Lent 2015: Reflections and Suggestions Fr. C. John McCloskey, The Catholic Thing What is the Best Portrayal…
God and Constantine
According to Augustine, all of Constantine’s achievements were gifts of God (City of God, 5.25): He “gave…
On Missing the Main Thing
In his 1959 Luther the Expositor, Jaroslav Pelikan remarked on the tendency of church historians to neglect the…
Unscientific Obstinacy
Last December, on Christmas Day, the Wall Street Journal printed a commentary by Eric Metaxas entitled “Science Increasingly…
The New Republic’s Managerial Elitism
It’s subtitled “A historical reflection,” but there’s not much reflection in Jeet Heer’s survey of race in…
Victor
The first six chapters of Revelation are a pep talk. Again and again, Jesus makes promises to…
Reforming Council
Donald Norwood reminds us in Reforming Rome that the Reformers were eager for a ecumenical council to resolve…
Upcoming Events—02.13.15
New York Film, the Aesthetics of Death, and the Culture of Life: Picturing Motion after Modernity February…
First Links — 2.13.15
Love Thy Neighbor Joseph Loconte, The Weekly Standard The Church that Fills Me with Hope for Europe…
Voice, Angel, Thunders
Revelation 10 opens with a vision of an angel coming down from heaven. If the angel isn’t…
Must the Stretching Stop?
In his recent study of John of Damascus, Perichoresis and Personhood, Charles Twombly expresses concern that contemporary…
The Creator God of the New Testament
Over the last several years, as I’ve defended some of the essentials of “classical theism” in print…
Harmony of the Universe
A lovely passage on Providence from Augustine (City of God, 5.11). God cannot leave the kingdoms of men,…
Barth the Catholic
Donald Norwood’s Reforming Rome is a study of Karl Barth’s contributions and responses to Vatican II. At…
