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The American Religion of Psychology
Keith G. Meador devotes his contribution to The Secular Revolution to an analysis of the therapeutic takeover…
A Daily Plan for Reading Shakespeare
Once again I offer, to anyone interested, a daily reading plan of my own devising that will…
Augustinian Optimism and Modern Science
Peter Harrison points out in his The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science (10–11) that…
Annie Glenn and Other Famous Stutterers
The death of pilot, astronaut, and senator John Glenn should move us to think of his wife…
Post-Enlightenment Apocalyptic
According to Cyril O’Regan, von Balthasar saw Hegel and Heidegger as the great exemplars of post-Enlightenment mis-remembering…
Monstrous Revelations
Near the beginning of his Religion and its Monsters, Timothy Beal points to the etymological hint that…
Apocalypse Preserved
Karl Shuve’s contribution to Apocalypses in Context traces the Christian use of Jewish apocalyptic, especially of the…
Constructing Modernity
Thomas Fabisiak wonders, What does the New Jerusalem have to do with modernity? (Apocalypses in Context). Ask…
Chess and Soviet Man
In a 2011 New Yorker profile of Norwegian chess champion Magnus Carlsen, D.T. Max digresses to explain…
Erotics of Reading
In the middle stanzas of “Erotikos Logos,” watching someone else reading, Scott Cairns (Slow Pilgrim, 278) writes,…
From Polemic to Propaganda
Andrew Pettegree (Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion) observes a shift in rhetorical tone in Protestant-Catholic debates…
The Limits of Brotherhood
Andrew Pettegree (Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion, 201-2) describes the post-Reformation efforts to cultivate a sense…
Up From Flatland
Geography has historically imagined a flat world: “territory, sovereignty and human experience have long been flattened by…
The Politics of Advent
Advent locates Christians between the horizons of the Kingdom’s inauguration and its consummation. In the union between…
Faith in a Time of Crisis
King Ahaz of Judah is in a panic. Israel and Aram have allied to resist Assyria’s expansion,…
