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Child Israel
Amos Funkenstein observes (Perceptions of Jewish History, 11-12) that “To ancient or primitive societies, in which antiquity…
Spirit of Insurrection
Unclean spirits are conspicuous by their absence in the Old Testament, but the one direct reference gives…
Hope for Unity
In his excellent contribution to The Second Vatican Council, Paul Murray makes a crucial distinction between ecumenical optimism…
Sin and Control
One cannot encounter Orthodoxy without also encountering food aplenty. People customarily do not eat their first meal…
The Venn of Q
Noah Toly opens his reply to my recent Q conference review by stating that my piece contained…
Drinking the Classic Koch
Don’t miss Henry Olsen’s trenchant observations about the Republican party’s current internal conflicts. The lines of argument…
Evangelicals, Catholics, and Togetherness
A recent exchange between Rusty Reno and Andrew Haines has played back into previous exchanges between George…
Ashamed of the Gospel?
(The address begins 15:10 into the video.)
First Links — 5.20.14
A Commencement Address from Jonathan Edwards Aaron Bady, The New Inquiry Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and “Radical…
David and Divided Kingdom
The prophets promise that a new David will arise to reign over a united kingdom. Judah and…
Dumbing Down
Charles Simic laments the decline of educational standards: “An educated, well-informed population, the kind that a functioning democracy requires,…
Storied Theory
Critical scholarship has made hash of Leviticus. Scholars try to understand the rituals of “P” and “H”…
Levitical Atonement
Darrin Belousek argues in Atonement, Justice, and Peace that “penal substitution is inadequate to explain the textual evidence…
Confession and Anti-Liturgy
In his Trinity House lectures on liturgical theology, Jeff Meyers called attention to the anti-liturgy of Genesis…
First Things Campaign Report
Dear Reader, First Things is now in the second week of a two-week digital campaign to raise…
