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Time Out of Joint
Everyone who’s read Genesis 1 knows that Hebrews reckoned time from night till day. “Evening and morning,…
Science of Division
Plato said that purification is a science of division. So is creation. In Genesis, God forms the…
God’s Wounds
Jean-Louis Chretien begins his Hand to Hand with a series of meditations on the story of Jacob…
Silence of Painting
In Hand to Hand, Jean-Louis Chretien meditates on silence in painting. He doesn’t simply mean that painting…
Fair Nature’s Second Chance
“Giving oneself up to sleep can constitute the worst of abandonments,” writes Jean-Louis Chretien (Hand to Hand),…
The New (Secular) Pragmatism
Paul Collier devotes a long, provocative, stimulating TLS review to a sketch of a “new pragmatism.” The…
Authoritarian Gardeners
David I. Smith and Susan M. Felch (Teaching and Christian Imagination) want to rehabilitate the symbolism of…
Horticultural Anthropology
David Smith and Susan Felch devote several pages of their Teaching and Christian Imagination (129–134) to a…
Near Miss at Marburg
In a brief 1949 article in the Lutheran Quarterly, Roland Bainton observes that, far from being stubborn…
When Science Went Modern
Writing in the Hedgehog Review (Fall 2016), Lorraine Daston identifies 1890-1914 as the “moment when science went…
McLaboratory
McDonald’s looks like a fast food restaurant, but it’s a site of “embedded science,” writes Steven Shapin:…
When the Radio Breaks
Signals: New and Collected Storiesby tim gautreauxknopf, 384 pages, $26.95 For many years Tim Gautreaux has written…
God as Artist, Artist as God
In Hand to Hand, a meditation on “listening to the work of art,” Jean-Louis Chretien traces the…
A Great Mystery
It is a great mystery. Adam is created from the ground, as are the animals. Unlike the…
The Church of God in Christ Responds to Catholic Scholars
Dear Professor George, I want to express in the strongest possible terms my profound appreciation for the…
