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Hegel the Theologian
Enrique Dussel (Underside of Modernity) explains Hegel’s defection from Kant in theological terms. Inspired by Schiller’s distinction…
Confessionalization and Division
I have only two quick responses to Toby Sumpter’s generous and thoughtful review of (a part of)…
Jezebel and Babylon
Paul Duff (Who Rides the Beast? 90) calls attention to five parallels between the prophetess Jezebel of…
Dooyeweerdian Impasse
In an essay on radical Augustinian social critique in his Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, Lambert Zuidervaart…
Protestant Radical Orthodoxy
Lambert Zuidervaart’s essay on “radical Augustinian social critique” is, of course, mainly about Radical Orthodoxy. He devotes…
Giving Modernity Its Due
Lamber Zuidervaart thinks that Christian scholars have a “modernity complex” (Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation, 222). He…
Strangers in Their Land
Nathaniel Rich reviews Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land in the NYRB. Hochschild, a Berkeley…
Infancitide in History
In a TLS review of James Sharpe’s history of violence in England (A Fiery & Furious People),…
So Close, So Far
In a scintillating poem, “Late Apocalypse,” Scott Cairns (Slow Pilgrim, 214-5), Scott Cairns gives the sharpest, pithiest…
Making Sense of It
Maybe the only satisfying thing about the November 8 election of Donald Trump as president was the…
Where I Was Wrong Part III: Taxes, Work, and Family
I spent the 1990s and the first half of the previous decade thinking way too much about…
Forgetful Reading
When teaching hermeneutics, I’ve limited myself to giving students two rules: “Pay attention!” and “Remember!” The exclamation…
America Being America
International observers have looked with dismay on the 2016 Presidential election, often for good reason. But David…
Trump, Evangelicals, Religion, and the 2016 Exit Polls
One major theme of this election year has been the role of evangelical voters in Donald Trump’s…
Men of Measure
The account of David’s reign in 1 Chronicles alternates between house-building and war, house-building and international recognition…
