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Race, Religion, and Republic in Herman Melville’s “Redburn”
Herman Melville published his autobiographical novel Redburn in 1849. The work proved to be one of his best, and in many ways remains his…

Paul as Pentheus? (Updated)
On Euripides in the Acts of the Apostles.

When Tradition Becomes Tragedy: Thomas Aquinas and the Immaculate Conception
Thomas Aquinas did not believe that Mary was conceived without sin.

Justin Martyr on Free Will, Righteous Pagans
Who needs Limbo when you have Logos?

“Men of all descriptions will, to a great degree, be transformed into business men”: Businessmen’s Preaching in the 19th United States
In 1857 James Waddel Alexander, prominent Presbyterian minister and former professor at what is now Rutgers University, and later at Princeton Seminary, spearheaded the…