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First Links–12.17.14
‘Islamic Doll’ for Children Launched in Britain Claire Carter, Mail Online A Point of View: The Strangely…
Wives and Daughters
Unpacking her patrilineal account of sacrifice, Nancy Jay notes offhandedly that the genealogy of Genesis 4-5 is…
Reshuffling Sacraments
In a brilliant brief discussion of the Reformation revision of Christian sacramental theology, Philippe Buc (Dangers of…
Impure Modernity
In his Inquiry into Modes of Existence, Bruno Latour imagines an anthropologist doing field work among the tribe…
The Gods of Economics
Bruno Latour (An Inquiry into Modes of Existence) says that “the entire modern experience has stood up…
First Links — 12.16.14
How Modern Art Became Trapped By Its Urge To Shock Roger Scruton, BBC News Magazine Computer Solving…
Impurity – Thinking Makes It So
Paul continues to use the language of purity and impurity, but it seems radically altered in his…
Hamann’s Hume
Johann Georg Hamann, the devout German philosopher of the Enlightenment age, argues that “a kind of ‘faith’ is…
Risen City
Sanballat hears about Nehemiah’s project of rebuilding Jerusalem after the exile, he becomes angry and mocks the…
Right Hand
John describes the angel’s position in Revelation 10 in great detail. The angel straddles land and sea,…
So ISIS Is Not Infidel—Are Christians?
The Egyptian university, Al-Azhar, the world’s oldest and most prestigious seat of Sunni Muslim scholarship, refused to…
The Evangelical Catholic Tradition
The news that Russell Saltzman is leaving Lutheranism to the Roman Catholic Church calls to mind previous…
Eichmann’s Not So Banal Evil
Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murdererbettina stangnethknopf, 608 pages, $35 German philosopher, Bettina…
First Links – 12.15.14
Holy Mary, Drenched in Symbolism E.W., The Economist Habits of Mind Anthony Grafton & James Grossman, The…
Impure Feminism
Irene Gedalof argues in Against Purity that feminists have been too much in the grip of a binary…
