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Final Judgment
In an earlier post, I noted that Revelation 4 describes not only a heavenly temple but a heavenly…
Doorkeeper
From the whirlwind, Yahweh reveals His creative power to Job, challenging Job with a repeated “where were…
Criticism
William Logan’s Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure is incisive, full of juicy assaults like these: “Mary Oliver is the…
Incipient Modernism
Daniel Albright observes in his Panaesthetics that Renaissance perspective “is more unnatural, even seditious to nature, than it first…
What Have We Done to Our Young Men and Women?
Philadelphia Magazine has published a story about my beloved alma mater Swarthmore College that is so depressing I…
First Links — 4.28.14
No, Sarah Palin, Baptism Isn’t a Good Punchline for a Terrorist Joke Mollie Hemingway, the Federalist Steatite…
Unintended Capitalism
Brad Gregory (Unintended Reformation, 268-9) observes that “like radical Protestants, the magisterial reformers, including Calvin, unambiguously condemned…
Tradition and Innovation
Wisdom from Yves Congar, as compiled by Brother Emile of Taize in his Faithful to the Future (43):…
Fall from heaven
Revelation 12 opens with a tableau of a laboring cosmic mother threatened by a devouring dragon. During…
Trumpets
In Numbers 10, Yahweh instructs Moses to make two silver trumpets. They have several uses. 1) If…
The Made
Comparative literature is a standard discipline in our universities. Comparative arts is less familiar. Daniel Albright has…
Natural Sex Again
My friend Rich Bledsoe in response to a recent post on sexual ethics: “it has been pointed out in…
Vera Ecclesia?
Anthony Milton recounts (Catholic and Reformed) the debates within the seventeenth-century church of England concerning the status…
State-Run Reformation
Brad Gregory argues in his Unintended Reformation that it is a historical prejudice to treat “magisterial” Protestantism, which…
Christ or Torah?
What appears to be Paul’s first recorded statement on justification comes in Acts 13, in a sermon…
