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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…
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…
Perfect Fear
Michael Oakeshott (Hobbes on Civil Association, 38-39) states Hobbes’s solution to the dilemma of human violence in…
Democide
“During the first eighty-eight years of [the 20th] century,” writes R. J. Rummel (Death by Government) “almost…
Microtime
Jimena Canales has written a history of A Tenth of a Second. It seems an arbitrary cut-off. Why…
Reform of Humanism
When the Reformation and humanism are discussed together, the question is typically how the latter helped produce…
Example, Father, Type
What is the thrust of the argument in Romans 4? Is Paul mainly concerned to present Abraham as…
Administrative Law
Columbia Law School professor Philip Hamburger’s The Administrative Threat makes a powerful case that the executive branch…
Psalms of Justification
Attacked by his enemies, David cries out, asking God to judge. He prays for favorable judgment for himself,…
Greatest Poem
From Whitman’s Preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass: The Americans of all nations at…
Chemnitz on Abraham’s Justification
In what context does “justification” fit? Does the word describe what happens to sinners when they are…
On Trump and Trumpism
Like many Americans, I’ve spent an inordinate proportion of the past two years thinking about Donald Trump.…
Not Listening
Luke Bretherton argues (Christianity, Democracy and the Shadow of Constantine) that “For the church, listening is the…
