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Up From Flatland
Geography has historically imagined a flat world: “territory, sovereignty and human experience have long been flattened by…
Apocalypse Preserved
Karl Shuve’s contribution to Apocalypses in Context traces the Christian use of Jewish apocalyptic, especially of the…
Post-Enlightenment Apocalyptic
According to Cyril O’Regan, von Balthasar saw Hegel and Heidegger as the great exemplars of post-Enlightenment mis-remembering…
Constructing Modernity
Thomas Fabisiak wonders, What does the New Jerusalem have to do with modernity? (Apocalypses in Context). Ask…
Monstrous Revelations
Near the beginning of his Religion and its Monsters, Timothy Beal points to the etymological hint that…
Chess and Soviet Man
In a 2011 New Yorker profile of Norwegian chess champion Magnus Carlsen, D.T. Max digresses to explain…
The Politics of Advent
Advent locates Christians between the horizons of the Kingdom’s inauguration and its consummation. In the union between…
Faith in a Time of Crisis
King Ahaz of Judah is in a panic. Israel and Aram have allied to resist Assyria’s expansion,…
Nationalism and the Elections of 2016
What explains the political upheavals of 2016—in Britain, the United States, France, and even Italy? Some might…
Progressive Homogenization
In his end-of-the-book essay in the latest issue of the Claremont Review of Books, Mark Helprin neatly…
The Past is a Foreign Country
There is a line from one of the choruses in Sophocles’s Antigone that first struck me some…
De Deo Uno et Trino
D. Stephen Long (The Perfectly Simple Triune God) claims that the doctrine of divine simplicity is designed…
Two Kinds of Liberalism
Mark Garnett (The Snake that Swallowed Its Tail) identifies four core beliefs of liberalism: “that the individual…
Fugitive Commitments
Search Party, a new dark comedy airing on TBS, turns a sly eye on a scene everyone…
Dating Daniel
In a contribution to Apocalypses in Context, Christopher Hays recounts the rise of apocalyptic writing during the…
