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Shakespeare Notebook 2023: “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”
Reflecting on Shakespeare with Plato's "Phaedrus", and thoughts on repentance.
“You Can Go Home Again”: The End of Confessions 4
Augustine on going home by finding our selves outside our selves in God inside ourselves.
Philodemus and Aristides
From what I gather, Philodemus’ own ideal for the Christian social ethic is rather different from Aristides’.
Samuel B. Wylie and the Invention of Secular America
1800 saw the invention of a secular America, not a Christian one. There was no need to invent an explicitly Christian founding, largely because…
Free Will, Predestination, and Politics in Early Christianity: Musings for 2023
Prior to Augustine, early Christian intellectuals forcefully stressed human free will over against predestination.
