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Tradition and Innovation in Nuce

Peter J. Leithart

Defending the possibility of innovation in doctrine is just another way of asserting sola Scriptura. It’s a…

Triune Chord

Peter J. Leithart

Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s contribution to Trinity and Salvation is on the Trinity and music. Fitzgerald overstates when she called…

Serious Puns

Peter J. Leithart

According to Frederick Ahl (Metaformations, 18), we have an irrefutable syllogism to demonstrate that puns aren’t found…

A Plea on Behalf of Victims of Barbarism in Iraq

Robert P. George

I have created a website, iraqrescue.org, at which I have posted “A Plea on Behalf of the…

Pierre Ryckmans, RIP

R. R. Reno

Pierre Ryckmans died in August. He was a Belgian trained in law who lived in Taiwan, where…

More on Pornography

Carl R. Trueman

I am grateful to Greg for his thoughtful supplement to my post on porn because this is…

Will the Miracle Survive?

Peter J. Leithart

Stephen Mansfield remembers what Kurdistan was like in the early 1990s: “To be among the Kurds in…

Introducing Trinity

Peter J. Leithart

Declan Marmion and Rik Van Nieuwenhove’s 2011 Introduction to the Trinity is an excellent introduction to both the…

Don’t Forget the Christians

Mark Movsesian

This past weekend, the United States began to intervene in the humanitarian crisis unfolding in northern Iraq.…

Triple Threat

Peter J. Leithart

The dragon mounts three attacks on the woman (Revelation 12). First, he stands ready to attack the…

Griper Laureate

Peter J. Leithart

“The world is going to hell in a hurry,” writes Charles Simic in his latest outburst. “At my…

Mother in Heaven

Peter J. Leithart

The Bible’s chapter breaks are often misleading. They can be worse. The chapter break between Revelation 11-12…

Libertarian Futures?

Peter J. Leithart

Some Republicans have been saying that libertarianism is the wave of the GOP future, since it appeals…

SuperMoses

Peter J. Leithart

Responding to a recent post on superheroes, a friend pointed me to this, where Betsy Phillips points out…

Beautiful and Sublime in History Writing

Peter J. Leithart

Haydn White argued that historical writing was disciplined as it moved from the sublime to the beautiful.…