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“Confusion Is of the Devil” Indeed
I don’t often read Michael Sean Winters, who blogs at the National Catholic Reporter site, and his attack…
First Links — 10.24.14
The Secret History of Birth Control Pills Sarah Kliff, Vox This Marriage Thing is (Beautiful) Hard as…
Beastheology
God created two different kinds of land creatures, which are identified with two different sorts of names…
From the Sea
At the beginning of Revelation 13, the dragon – Satan – goes to the seashore. He places…
Musical Eschatology
In a 2009 First Things piece reprinted in It’s Not the End of the World: It’s Just the End…
Scholastic Exegesis
Scholastic and exegetical theology are sometimes contrasted. Scholastics reason logically from axioms; exegetical theologians go wherever the…
The Tool of Selective Nostalgia
Yuval Levin has done a great service by showing how nostalgia blinds. And that malady affects both the…
An Emerging Irony for the Professors
When you talk to humanities professors, especially those at elite institutions, it doesn’t take long for the…
First Links – 10.23.14
Middle East Must Keep Its Christians, Says Vatican Calling for Scrutiny of Islamists’ Funding Hannah Roberts, The…
Reconciling with Plato
One of the interesting findings of Patrick Fletcher’s Resurrection Realism, a study of Ratzinger’s Augustinian views on the…
Communism, Lies and Illusion
Francois Furet’s Lies, Passions & Illusions is a best-seller in France. The little book is Furet’s portion of…
Points of the Compass
In his Prison Notebooks, the Marxist writer Antonio Gramsci rebuts the abstracted philosophizing of Bertrand Russell: “Russell…
Substitution and Forgiveness
Justyn Terry argues that Kant’s critique of substitutionary atonement is misleading because he assumes that there are…
The German Position
In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt published today, Cardinal Walter Kasper reiterates in a less controversial…
The Death of the Parish
For most of the last two millennia the gathered or institutional church was organized on a territorial…