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Parents as Strangers
In the Divine Institutes, Lactantius takes on Plato’s endorsement of common property. He makes a grudging admission…
Justice Christianized
“We dismiss what philosophers take to be the fundamental exercise of justice,” writes Ambrose in his Christianized…
The Contradictions of Trumpism
In a scathing essay Trump and his New Nationalist supporters, Daniel Krauthammer observes that Trump defines national…
Justice Without Just Judges
Justice does not, David Hume argued, arise from judges with a rigorous concern for equity. It arises, like…
Can We Perceive a Chair?
Near the beginning of Value in Capitalist Society, Paul Cobben is explaining Marx’s use of Hegelian themes and turns…
Palms in the Wilderness
Solomon is a builder. The verb banah (build) is used 31 times in the Chronicler’s account of…
Prayer Power
Oliver O’Donovan takes note of the power of the church’s prophetic word. That’s sexy. It’s not so sexy…
Little Latin, Less Greek
Rummaging around John McGuckin’s magisterial, encyclopedic, and very big history of the first millennium of Christianity, The Path…
All Theology: A Methodological Poem
All theology is about God. All theology is theology proper. For Christian theology, the only God who…
Text Patterns in 2 Chronicles 7
The Lord’s response to Solomon’s prayer, and to Israel’s song and sacrifice, is laid out in an…
Church as/and Polity
In The Watershed of Modern Politics, the last of a trilogy on the emergence of modern political…
“Decadent Poverty” at the First Things Gallery
In a first for First Things, an art exhibit in our office gallery has been reviewed. The reviewer is…
Yahweh is Good
The Chronicler can’t talk about praise without breaking out in praise. He can’t describe Israel’s worship without worshiping. …
Susan B. Anthony’s Contested Legacy
In a recent article for Slate, Ruth Graham argues that Susan B. Anthony, America’s greatest suffragist, was…
Populism and Liberalism
“Populism seems more and more to be an inevitable drift of unqualified liberal democracy,” writes John Milbank…
