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“Western history is not, John Milbank argues, an evolutionary progress away from religion and toward human freedom…

In his history of popular culture in early modern Europe, Peter Burke traces what he describes as…

In his recently-published Sign and Sacrifice, Rowan Williams notes the continuity between the post-Maccabean theology of martyrdom…

This past Friday, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) hosted a panel on sanctity of life…

Helmut Kuhn begins his 1941 article on “true tragedy” by noting the chronological proximity of Plato and…

Rowan Williams (Sign and Sacrifice) summarizes the Anselmian understanding of the atonement using the categories of sacrifice,…

On this episode of the First Things Podcast: Editor Rusty Reno and associate editor Julia Yost are…

Describing the assignments of Levite gatekeepers, the Chronicler records that there were four at the “highway” at…

“Scorsese is coming for all of the Oscars.” So proclaimed the digital magazine Paste, a regular haunt…

Pete Spiliakos makes the counter-intuitive point that Trump’s nationalism will fail politically unless it can become more…

Denis McNamara’s How To Read Churches is an extraordinary book. Subtitled “a crash course in ecclesiastical architecture,”…

John Milbank cites what he calls “Socrates’s subversive realization” that “education can never be democratic” (Being Reconciled,…

Through a series of thought experiments, Richard Foley (Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others) develops a concept…

Following Alvin Platinga, Richard Foley summarizes the principles of Locke’s epistemology in three principles (Intellectual Trust in…

Catherine Pickstock claims that the rejection of liturgy is central to modernity. Having refused the integrations of…