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Priest, King, Reader
Uche Anizor’s Kings and Priests is a useful contribution to the burgeoning library of theological interpretation. Anizor uses…
Tale of Two Readings
Uche Anizor’s Kings and Priests includes a neat description of a “tale of two readings” – that of…
Eights on Eights
Uche Anizor writes (Kings and Priests, 78-9) analyzes Psalm 119 as a “developed expression of devotion to…
Bible Belt Catholicity
Pastor Rich Lusk reflects on the difficulties of pursuing Reformational Catholicism in the Bible Belt at the…
What Science Cannot Know
Nicholas Rescher argues in Unknowability that there are certain things that logically cannot be known, such as “an idea…
Tears of Heaven
When John learns that there is no worthy one to open the Father’s book, he weeps greatly…
Not Monolithic
Many Protestants still think of the Catholic church as a monolithic, uniform church. It’s been a long…
First Links — 5.23.14
Confidentially Yours: The Banality of the Celebrity Profile and How It Got That Way Anne Helen Petersen,…
Can the Dead Praise?
Heaven, earth, sea: That three-decker universe is standard-issue in biblical cosmology (Exodus 20:11; Psalm 69:34; 96:11; 135:6;…
Articulate Anguish
Psalm 38 says some shocking things about God. He is wrathful toward David (v. 1). He is…
Fresh Logic
In his preface to Receptive Ecumenism, Paul Murray explains that the “driving assumption is that if all were…
Semper, ubique, ab omnibus?
Thomas Guarino (Vincent of Lerins) outlines Newman’s arguments against the Vincentian canon (orthodoxy is what is taught…
Receptive Ecumenism in Practice
As Avery Dulles recounts it in The Catholicity of the Church, the reforms of Vatican II came partly…
The Missing Piece in Conservative Economics
Pete, I appreciate your response to my post, and I think you’re right that the key problem…
Final Campaign Report
Dear Readers, We are coming to the end of First Things’ two-week digital fundraising campaign. When we started…
