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“Cor Novum, Canticum Novum”: A New Year’s Sermon from John Donne
On New Year's Day 1625, John Donne exhorted his hearers to circumcise their hearts.

Herod, Parthia, and Roman Foreign Policy
Herod the Great had more to fear than a newborn usurper.

Rougemont on Christianity and the Nationalities
Older views of church and state do not fit modern American binaries regarding their missions.

Syllables Cannot Hold Him: “In the Bleak Midwinter” and the Grandeur of God
Christina Rossetti's choices of meter and scriptural allusion are no accident.

The Birth of the Immaculate Conception: Mary, Apostolic Tradition, and the Protevangelium of James
How was this famous apocryphon received in the early Christian world?