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Sacrificial economy
In Sacrifice and the Body, John Dunnill makes the simple observation that most of what ancient Israelites sacrificed…
First Links—12.8.14
The Promise and Prospects of Retrieval: Recent Developments in Roman Catholic Thought That Shape Contemporary Dogmatic Theology…
Ritual Theory
In their 1994 The Archetypal Actions of Ritual, Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw attempt a philosophically sophisticated definition…
Child Sacrifice
In his study of circumcision, Marked in Your Flesh, Leonard Glick picks up a suggestion made by Jon…
World of Impurity
One of the remarkable insights of Mira Balberg’s remarkable book on Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic…
A Reed Like a Rod
John is told to prophesy. Then he is given a “reed like a rod” and told to…
More than a Rape Culture
The debunking of Rolling Stone’s shamefully irresponsible journalism does not eliminate the need to deal with campus rape. Today…
Cathlick Lit
Faithful Passages: American Catholicism in Literary Culture, 1844–1931? by james emmett ryan wisconsin, 258 pages, $29.95 American…
Wieseltier the Dinosaur
He’s out at The New Republic. Leon Wieseltier has been described as a beloved “institution.” I’m not…
First Links — 12.5.14
The Promise and Prospects of Retrieval: Recent Developments in Roman Catholic Thought That Shape Contemporary Dogmatic Theology…
Paul’s Ego
Paul’s offers this description of his experience at the end of Galatians 2: He died to the…
Baptism and the Spirit
According to Paul, the baptized are clothed with Christ (Galatians 3:27). In baptism, all the baptized are…
The Human Age
Like her other books, Diane Ackerman’s The Human Age is like a long, informative conversation with a witty…
Social Brain
We think of other people as being, well, other, outside. Others might have some effects on the…
What We’ve Been Reading
Matthew Schmitz I have been reading Francis Spufford’s Unapololgetic. His discussion of sin is particularly illuminating: One of the…
