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Sacrifice of Charity
In both Christian and Jewish theology, charity was one of the forms of post-sacrificial sacrifice. Halbertal (On…
Genesis
It’s a central thesis of John B. Judis’s new Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli…
Prostate Hoax?
The Economist review of The Great Prostate Hoax by Richard Ablin observes that opposition to prostate testing has…
Giving All To God
It is well known that Greeks rarely offered holocaust sacrifices – sacrifices in which the entire animal…
Auden’s Secrets
When I spot an essay entitled “The Secret Auden,” I get nervous. When it’s in the New York…
Reason, Revelation, and Reform
Dale, I take it the question you are concerned about here is something like, “does the spirit…
First Links — 3.7.14
Scientism in the Arts and Humanities Roger Scruton, New Atlantis The Moral Tragedy of Sweeney Todd Leah…
The Gift of Efficacy
Blood atones. That’s rooted in the created fact that life is in the blood, but in the…
Atonement and Re-creation
Stephen A. Geller offers an intriguing reading of the day of atonement rituals. He points out that,…
Atonement by blood
Why, Stephen A. Geller asks, does “P” consider blood a necessary agent for achieving forgiveness and the…
Bloody Christians
Rabbinic Judaism, Stephen Geller suggests, is the “triumph of Deuteronomy and the Word.” After the fall of…
What We Can All Learn from Charles Taylor
Greg: Charles Taylor believes humans are naturally ordered toward the good, which means they will always feel…
Emotion and Evangelicalism
To be an Evangelical is to profess that one’s highest allegiance is to the Gospel of Jesus…
First Links — 3.6.14
Evolution and Political Ideology, Again Chris Mooney, Washington Monthly The Catholic Church’s Drinking Problem Robert Christian, Millennial…
Note from the Editor
Dear Friends, I’d like to explain our new approach to publishing First Things online. First, we give away at…
