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Joshing With God
The TLS “Poem of the Week” was James Fenton’s “God, a Poem.” It opens with this complaint…
Religion of Fullness
In his contribution to Joy and Human Flourishing, Jurgen Moltmann observes that modern theories of religion trace…
In Defense of Vengeance
Robert Solomon argues (The Joy of Philosophy) that “Vengeance is the original passion for justice. The word…
Big Philosophy
Robert Solomon’s The Joy of Philosophy is a defense of philosophy as a joyful wisdom, a la…
Fanny Price
Few readers love Fanny Price. Some hate her as deeply as Mark Twain professed to hate her…
God’s Purpose and the Church
In his Christian Ethics and the Church (67), Philip Turner provides a masterful summary of “the link…
Man of Blood
Twice in 1 Chronicles, David says he was prevented from building the temple because he shed “copious”…
David’s Census
The thesis of John Wright’s 1993 essay on the Chronicler’s account of David’s census (1 Chronicles 21)…
Butterfly Center
My grandson screams and runs away from a butterfly, flutterflower, wings fine as petals. The butterfly, gentlest creature,…
Justified in the Spirit
What is the Spirit’s role in justification—the justification of Jesus and of sinners? In Protestant theology, the…
Paul, the Justified Apostle
According to Romans 6:7, justification is God’s liberating judgment that delivers the baptized from sin, death, and from…
Catholic Classical Education on the Rise
St. Benedict Elementary is a Catholic classical school serving kindergarten through sixth grade, situated alongside the Charles…
Reform of Humanism
When the Reformation and humanism are discussed together, the question is typically how the latter helped produce…
Myth of Modernity
The closer we look at “modernity,” argue Jean and John Comaroff in Modernity and Its Malcontents, the more…
Christianity and the Sexual Abuse of Children
In Destroyer of the Gods, Larry Hurtado reminds us that “in the Roman era the sexual use of…
