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First Links—11.25.14

The Editors

Calm Down, Liberal and Conservative Catholics, the Church Won’t Break Charlotte Allen, LA Times Sacred Art Pelagia…

The Liturgical Formation of Culture

Peter J. Leithart

Over at the Theopolis Institute site, I offer some reflections on the liturgical formation of culture through a…

Protestant Eyes

Peter J. Leithart

Protestant soteriology claims to deal with perennial patterns of behavior and belief: Striving for approval from God…

Paul and the Petty Tyrants

Peter J. Leithart

Theodore Jennings (Transforming Atonement, 158) observes that “what is visible on the grand scale of imperial political…

The Grounds of Justification

Peter J. Leithart

Markus Barth (Acquittal by Resurrection) sharply raises the question of the justice of God’s verdict of justification.…

Not Yet

David Layman

As a response to the recent Marriage Pledge, we are republishing Russell D. Moore’s contribution to the…

Marriage Pledge is Not an Imperative of Conscience

R. R. Reno

Last week, I wrote in favor of the Marriage Pledge and suggested that signing a government-provided document designating Spouse…

First Links – 11.24.14

The Editors

From Folk Tales to Internet Pests Heather O’Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement The Secret Life of Passwords…

Gift of Death

Peter J. Leithart

“Christian life is an impossible newness given as an unfitting gift,” writes John Barclay in his contribution…

Why the Torah

Peter J. Leithart

In a 2007 essay reprinted in his Pauline Perspectives, NT Wright gives this tight and quite wonderful summary…

Allegory and Atonement

Peter J. Leithart

Atonement theology has drawn heavily from Paul, also from the Passion narratives. In drawing on the Passion…

Barth on Distributive Justice

Peter J. Leithart

In a study of Barth and Hegel on liberation and atonement (Christ Crucified in a Suffering World),…

Anti-Satan

Peter J. Leithart

The flavor of this is somewhat too Girardian, but still an excellent statement of the Spirit’s anti-Satanic…

The Role of Government Marriage?

R. R. Reno

Ryan Anderson and others (including Doug Wilson) wonder how I can support the Marriage Pledge. It asks…

What We’ve Been Reading (& Listening To)

The Editors

Matthew Schmitz The 9/11 Memorial Museum is conceived as a narrative device, leading visitors minute by minute…