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Aging and the Unmaking of the World
Age obliterates and collapses our world, writes Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain (32-3): “the body…
Divine Sentience
In several places in Scripture, idols are characterized by their sensory deprivation (Psalms 115; 135). They have…
Peripheral Modernity
Tracing the pre-history of European modernity that started with the Cartesian cogito, Enrique Dussel (Underside of Modernity,…
Among the Mournful Historians
There were many Dick Turpins, writes James Sharpe in his study of the mythical English highwayman. There…
Improvization
Bruce Ellis Benson (Improvisation of Musical Dialogue) doesn’t think that “the binary schema of ‘composing’ and ‘performing,’…
Celebrating the Reformation
In his elegant study of Reformation commemorations (Remembering the Reformation), Thomas Albert Howard notes that the first…
Reformation of Theological Writing
The Reformation was highly improbably, writes Andrew Pettegree in his lively, vivid Brand Luther: “that a monk…
No “Cool,” No “Awesome”
Midway through his memoir of religion in America from the fifties forward, Ken Woodward recalls that some…
The Ark’s Ascension
The Chronicler’s account of David bringing the ark of the covenant to Zion takes up several chapters…
Regionalism
Derek Rishmawy is on to me. In a charitable review of The End of Protestantism, he sees…
The Pope, Protestantism, and Reformation
The recent visit of Pope Francis to the Cathedral of Lund was an historic occasion. The Holy…
The Failure of the Conservative Intellectuals
The conservative intellectuals have failed. Have you heard? Everyone’s saying it. The first thing to remember is…
Political educator
Our friends at The New Criterion have graciously allowed us this preview of a complementary article from…
Paedocommunion, the Gospel, and the Church, IV
The thesis here is: Inclusion in the sacraments is a necessary privilege of membership in the covenant…
Dylan’s Nobel in Perspective
The awarding of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan has provoked enthusiasm and dismay…
