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Purity and the Other
In his contribution to Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions, Philippe Borgeaud explores ancient comparative anthropology, the…
Passion of Poetry
Sketching a theological account in support of Reformed ressourcement in their Reformed Catholicity, Michael Allen and Scott Swain…
Nevin Lectures, 2015
Robert Louis Wilken, noted church historian and Chairman of the Board of the Institute on Religion and…
First Links—1.13.15
On Satire—a Response to the Charlie Hebdo Attacks Joe Sacco, The Guardian Stanis?aw Bara?czak’s “This is Not…
Priests of Babylon
Ancient Babylonian temples were busy places. There were butchers and cooks for the meat, bakers for the…
Derived Aseity
Aseity is the property that describes a being’s self-causation. In theology, to speak of divine aseity is…
Baptism and Justification in Christian Tradition
In his study of Justification in Earlier Medieval Theology, Charles Carlson concludes that early medieval commentators on Paul…
To Students: Close Laptops, Use Pencils
I disallow laptops in my classroom. No screens, only books, paper, and pencil. The obvious reason is the…
Let No One Look Down on Your Agedness
An article by ARDA (the Association of Religious Data Archives) reports the difficulty older seminarians have of…
In Praise of Folly
The reactions to the attack on Charlie Hebdo which Matthew Schmitz noted last week are significant for…
First Links—1.12.15
Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie David Warren, The Catholic Thing Unfinished Business: 2015 in Preview Editors, Fare…
Die Alone, Live Alone
At the end of Albert Camus’s The Stranger, the narrator is on death row for killing an…
Pure and Holy
Naomi Koltun-Fromm argues (Hermeneutics of Holiness) that the concepts of purity and holiness, while normally distinct in the…
Holy Seed
Explaining Ezra’s concern about the mixed marriages in the restoration community, Naomi Koltun-Fromm (Hermeneutics of Holiness) writes,…
Catholic Historiography
In his contribution to Seeing Things Their Way, Richard Muller discusses and commends the recent effort to free…