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Slow Going
PT Forsyth responds to the charge that the church is slow to accomplish her mission because of…
Red
Teju Cole pays tribute to Krzysztof Kie?lowski’s 1996 film Red in the December 22 issue of The New Yorker.…
Subject and Object in the Trinity
In a recent discussion of penal substitution in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Garry Williams…
Why Nuns Should Wear Habits
When a reporter recently called me for comment on the Vatican investigation of American women religious, I…
A Comedy of Moral Errors
Dear reader, First Things provides a place where faith has a voice. Will you make sure that…
First Links—12.19.14
The Everything Book: Reading in the Age of Amazon Casey Newton, The Verge Banyan Sudeep Sen, The…
Beyond Cuba and Castro
Dear reader, First Things provides a place where faith has a voice. Will you make sure that…
I’m Dreaming of an American Christmas
White Christmas (1954) has been part of family Christmases for as long as I can remember. Bing…
Philosophies of Fear
Jack Miles a rambling, erudite, sometimes-insightful, half-hearted defense of religious faith to cultured despisers in the Atlantic. …
Substitution
Pannenberg’s treatment of the atonement in Jesus – God and Man is one of the best short discussions…
Celebrity and the Absence of Faith
Arts & Entertainments by christopher beha ecco, 288 pages, $14.99 In Christopher Beha’s excellent debut novel, What…
Dealing With Wrath
Frances Young argues in her Use of Sacrificial Ideas in Greek Christian Writers that the cross is primarily…
Origenist Atonement
Frances Young (Use of Sacrificial Ideas in Greek Christian Writers) has a very rich account of Origen’s…
In and Out
Roy Gane’s detailed, technical Cult and Character is a sustained response to Jacob Milgrom’s claim that the purification…
Free and Now
Ben Meyer (The Aims of Jesus, 132) summarizes Jesus message as consisting of two themes: The kingdom…
