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How To Say, “I Am Righteous”
How many Protestants are comfortable applying the label “righteous” to themselves? How many Protestants can sing or…
1-2 Kings in nuce
This is a gloss and summary of the overview I offer in my Brazos commentary on 1-2 Kings.…
Darrida’s Paul Problem
Ward Blanton’s Materialism for the Masses provides a rebuttal to Nietzsche’s claim that Christianity was nothing but pop-Platonism.…
Jesus Was an Ingrate
Jesus was an ingrate. That’s on of the themes of Gratitude: An Intellectual History. Sign up now for…
Ecumenism and Russian State Power
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s department of external relations and a frequent…
First Links—11.11.14
The Sacred Project of American Society Cole Carnesecca, Fare Forward Clearing the Air Steven F. Hayward, The…
Republic of Imagination
As she has traveled in the US to promote Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi has heard a…
Crisis of Man
Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man exhumes a neglected thread of American intellectual history, a…
The Constitution of the “Cultic”
God set Jesus forth as a “hilasterion in His blood” in order to achieve redemption (Romans 3:25).…
Fire, Smoke, Brimstone
The army revealed by the sixth seal (Revelation 9:13-21) wears breastplates of “fire, hyacinth, and brimstone” (v.…
Our Only Option
Recently I attended a seminar on religious liberty at Villanova School of Law. I wanted to learn…
Birdman’s Sly Metaphysics
There’s a uniquely delicious scene about halfway through Alejandro González Iñárritu’s most recent film, “Birdman: Or, the…
Persistent Defiance
If Bonhoeffer enjoys continuing status as the Protestant opponent of Hitler, then the claimant to the Catholic…
First Links — 11.11.14
Technocracy Versus the Great Books Peter Lawler, The Federalist The Perks, Pitfalls, and Paradoxes of Amazon Publishing…
Living the Gift
“Gifts,” writes John Barclay (Galatians and Christian Theology, 307), “typically express and reinforce a preexistent system of…
