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Sex on Campus
I haven’t followed the details of the UVA sex scandal. Unless one is an administrator with responsibilities…
Learning from Kotkin’s Stalin
StalinVolume 1: Paradoxes of Power by stephen kotkinpenguin, 976 pages, $25.30 The first volume of Stephen Kotkin’s…
First Links – 12.1.14
Joint Declaration Promises to Intensify Efforts to Unite Churches Liz Dodd, The Tablet How Do You Sell…
Sharing death
Matthias Grebe’s Election, Atonement, and the Holy Spirit is an impressive piece of work. Grebe is as much…
The Thunder-Spirit
John eats a book from an angel and is told to prophesy (Revelation 10:10-11). But the angel…
Elemental Life
After reviewing Greek texts that describe the “strife of the elements,” Eduard Schweitzer summarizes the grim world…
Injustice that Suppresses Truth
Reformed theologians and epistemologists tend to psychologize Romans 1:18-32. God’s character and demands are evident in the…
First Links — 11.25.14
Automation Makes Us Dumb Nicholas Carr, The Wall Street Journal The Crowdsourcing Scam Jacob Silverman, The Baffler…
Purity, Life, Death
Fernando Belo’s summary of the symbolic system of purity (A Materialist Reading of the Gospel of Mark,…
Are the Divine Persons Persons?
The “personalist” understanding of the Trinity, articulated most influentially in the work of John Zizioulas, has fallen…
Hope of Heaven and Earth
Struggling to articulate the cosmic deliverance of Romans 8, Stanislas Breton (A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul,…
Hero-less
The incomparable Martin Hengel begins The Atonement with a question: Did Greco-Roman culture have categories to understand Jesus’…
Soldiers, Martyrs, Choristers
The numbering of the sealed in Revelation 7 alludes to the census events of the book of…
Taking Machiavelli at his Word
Redeeming “The Prince”: The Meaning of Machiavelli’s Masterpiece by maurizio viroli ?princeton, 208 pages, $26.95 In Redeeming…
The Conservative Principle in Obama’s Refusal to Act
Conservatives have been critiquing President Obama’s proposed executive amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. But the principle…
