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Dumas Pere

Peter J. Leithart

The father of Alexandre Dumas was a man of legendary strength, courage, and energy, and his life…

Apostasy and Assurance

Peter J. Leithart

Pastor Steve Wilkins clarifies the question of apostasy and assurance at the Trinity House site.

The Difference Three Percent Makes

Betsy Childs Howard

In the article“Women forced to travel as Deep South closes doors on abortion clinics,”Al Jazeera America draws…

On the Feast Day of St. Bonaventure

Dale M. Coulter

Today marks the feast day of St. Bonaventure, the seraphic doctor. Unlike Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure represents the…

First Links — 7.15.14

B. D. McClay

The State of the American Dog Tom Junod, Esquire And Now: The Criminalization of Parenthood Radley Balko,…

In Memoriam: Christopher Mitchell

Wesley Hill

Dr. Christopher W. Mitchell, longtime director of The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College and recently…

In Defense of Spain

Peter J. Leithart

Hugh Thomas’s World Without End is the final installment of his trilogy on imperialism in the century after Columbus.…

Medieval Modernist

Peter J. Leithart

Anthony Flint’s forthcoming biography of Le Corbusier, Modern Man, recounts the architect’s famous exploits, sexual, artistic, intellectual. It’s…

Hagar as Israel

Peter J. Leithart

Paul tells the story of Abraham, Hagar, Sarah, Ishmael and Isaac as an allegory (Galatians 4). He’s…

Land-Sanctuary

Peter J. Leithart

At the 2014 Biblical Horizons summer conference last week, James Jordan argued that, unlike the tabernacle that…

Reverberations of Exodus

Peter J. Leithart

Intertextuality is a buzz word in contemporary biblical scholarship. In New Testament studies, the impetus has come…

First Links — 7.14.14

B. D. McClay

God Lives on Lemon Street Scott Cheshire, Harper’s Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy Joshua Rothman, New Yorker…

Pauline Marxism

Peter J. Leithart

In his Criticism of Heaven, Roland Boer lays out a taxonomy of how Marxism has related to the…

Exodus after the Exile after Exile

Peter J. Leithart

The final chapters of Isaiah are a letdown. From chapter 40 on, Isaiah has given a brilliant…

Sculpting light

Peter J. Leithart

Traci Slatton, novelist wife of sculptor Sabin Howard, is ecstatic about sculpture. Her 2011 Art of Life is…