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Irony and Proclamation
In one of his late essays in Speech Genres, Bakhtin traces the secularization of literature to the solvent…
Depths of Satan
Jezebel and her children are ostensibly the ones who are obsessed with the “deep things (bathea) of…
Augustinian Semiotics
In a 1988 article in the Journal of Literature and Theology (2:1), Milbank sketches the contours of…
Publicly Traded Hobby Lobbies
Amid the flurry of essays on religious liberty occasioned by the Supreme Court’s hearing arguments in the…
When Dissent is Equated with Violence
UC Santa Barbara Professor Mireille Miller-Young is more imprudent, but no more ideologically insane than the administration…
Crying (Capitoline) Wolf on Religious Liberty
[The following was discovered recently when a Coptic translation appeared on the antiquities market, although some scholars…
First Links — 3.24.14
Pascal’s ApologeticsTim Keller, Gospel Coalition The Overprotected KidHannah Rosin, Atlantic The Civilized French HuntChantel Tattoli, The Millions…
Trinity House Registration
Registration is now open for the Pentecost term course at Trinity House, an introduction to liturgical theology…
De Man’s Stylistics
Evelyn Barish’s The Double Life of Paul De Manhas received mixed reviews. The NYTBR review cataloged minor errors to…
Death Before the Fall
Ronald Osborn’s Death Before the Fall is two books in one, as the subtitle suggests: “Biblical Literalism and…
Tossed on a Bed
Jesus threatens to throw the self-appointed prophetess Jezebel onto a bed (Revelation 3:22). The threat carries multiple…
Heaven, Earth, Temple
In his contribution to The Reader Must Understand, Crispin Fletcher-Louis argues convincingly that “heaven and earth” in Jesus’…
Resting on nothing
God hangs the earth on nothing (Job 26:7). That’s literally true. There’s no changeless substance beneath the…
Triune Dance?
A friend recently criticized the popular use of dance imagery to describe the perichoretic life of the…
Out of Pakistan
Carlotta Gall spent 12 years in Afghanistan, and spent much of her time investigating the sources of…
