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Reconciling history and nature
Israel’s feasts both followed the agricultural calendar and reenacted Israel’s past. Passover, Pentecost and Booths celebrated various…
Gift of Knowledge
“Knowledge is a gift,” writes Esther Lightcap Meek (A Little Manual for Knowing, 8). She continues, “Epiphany…
Quick CPAC Thoughts
I haven’t seen every speech at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, but… 1. Mike Lee is…
First Links — 3.11.14
Europe and the New Democracy Philippe Bénéton, Hedgehog Review What Dostoevsky Knew About the Internet Rosa Inocensio…
Circular Evolution
In his Natural History of Religion, David Hume proposes an evolutionary progress from natural polytheism to more…
Persistent Protest
Protestant problematics about sacraments still run in the background of early modern debates about religion. In response…
Jubilee: Real or Ideal?
Many scholars have concluded that the Jubilee legislation of Leviticus 25 is an idealized portrait of an…
Reenacted Exodus
Leigh Trevaskis tries to suss out the rationale for sticking Leviticus 24 (menorah, showbread, blasphemy) between Leviticus…
Epistemological Dualism
Esther Lightcap Meek presents the most devastating little critiques of epistemological dualism I’ve ever read near the…
Peyton Place
Thomas Mallon offers some qualified praise to Grace Metalious’s Peyton Place in the NYTBR. He thinks it is several…
First Links — 3.10.14
When Boswell Met Rousseau Robert Zaretsky, VQR What Happened to Ireland? John P. McCarthy, Homiletic & Pastoral…
Savaging Judaism
Drawing on Howard Eilberg-Schwartz’s The Savage in Judaism, I argue that the ills of modern theology can be…
Lost Tribes
The notion that American Indians are the ten lost tribes of Israel is quaint today, but during…
Righteous aggressors
Halbertal (On Sacrifice, 72-3) offers this fine analysis of the self-justificating moves of aggressors: “The mind can…
Self-transcendence and sacrifice
Self-transcendence is in various forms an essential part of modern moral theory. To be truly good, in…
