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Cold Warrior?
It’s popular to deride Putin as a throwback, a Cold Warrior out of his time. Peter Pomerantsev thinks this…
Edwards’s Social Trinity?
A few recent scholars have attempted to enlist Jonathan Edwards on the side of social Trinitarianism, most…
Reformational Catholicism Now
Pastor Tom Clark tells some stories of local catholicity at the Trinity House page this morning.
Trinitarian Prisca theologia
Deists didn’t think revelation necessary. The original religion was natural religion, and the original natural religion was…
The Silence of Jesus and the Voice of the Apostles
Late last week Sarah Pulliam Bailey posted an interview with Marilynne Robinson. Here’s an excerpt: Q: For…
Creation and Being
When the four living creatures give glory to God, the 24 elders fall and prostrate themselves and…
Ceaseless worship
When John enters heaven, he stumbles into a worship service. Four living creatures offer praise “day and…
Ox, Lion, Eagle, Man
In Ezekiel and Revelation, the cherubim-living creatures are ox, lion, eagle, and man. If they represent the…
Falling Angels
The four living creatures are “in the midst” and “around” the throne of the Enthroned one (Revelation…
Grateful Performance
Bruce Ellis Benson argues in The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue that the distinction of “composing” and “performing” doesn’t…
Mad Men’s Vision of Circular Progress
The theme of Mad Men Episode Four (“The Monolith”), with its brazen referentiality to 2001: A Space…
Kasper the Friendly Cardinal’s Ghostly Communion
In his interview with Commonweal editors Matthew Boudway and Grant Gallicho, Cardinal Walter Kasper speaks eloquently about…
First Links — 5.9.14
I Don’t Care Much About the Pope Leah Libresco, Patheos On Dignity and Evangelization Matthew Dugandzic, Ethika…
Who Is Worthy?
John sees a book at the right side of the enthroned Father, and a “strong angel” asks,…
Sprouting Wings
God created winged-things (Genesis 1:21; kanaf), and they were preserved in the ark (Genesis 7:14). But there…
