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Marx the Marcionite
Joseph Ratzinger (The God of Jesus Christ) discerns an underlying commonality between rigorous asceticism and free libertinism. Both…
Telos and Idolatry
The loss of Aristotelian/Thomist teleological conceptions of reality is often cited as one of the significant shifts…
Universal Harmony
In the course of a discussion of the “harmony” of the economy of grace, the great English…
Dear Jane
We may think that Jane Austen has only recently entered pop culture consciousness. We’d be wrong. Devoney…
Beatitude
As the title suggests, Jonathan Pennington’s The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing sees the Sermon on the…
Genealogy of Rights
In The Sacredness of the Person, Hans Joas offers an “affirmative genealogy” of the notion of human…
Color of Law
Richard Rothstein’s Color of Law demonstrates that “until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit…
Ally of Convenience
David Goldman argues that Trump sent “a clear message to America’s Muslim clients in Saudi Arabia: No more double…
Sources of “Justification”
In Paul’s letters, the verb “justify” (Gr. dikaioo) means “acquit, judge favorably,” with overtones of forgiveness and reconciliation.…
Necrophilia
We live in a death-avoidant culture. We have moved the dying from the home to nursing home…
Jesus is King
Joshua W. Jipp argues in Christ Is King that “kingship discourse” provides the “most helpful framework” (42) for understanding…
Solomon’s Creative Wisdom
When Queen Sheba visits Solomon, she sees things that take her breath away (2 Samuel 9:3–4), seven…
Is Calvin Among the Liberals?
Matthew Tuininga’s Calvin’s Political Theology and the Public Engagement of the Church aims to be more than…
Wendell Berry Redux
Wendell Berry has been born again! (Cinematically speaking.) Not that he appears to us in the revamped…
The Abortion–Breast Cancer Link
Donald Trump’s recent appointment of Charmaine Yoest to a position within the Department of Health and Human…
