What work is needful in this life before time runs out? Marcus Aurelius gives his answer in Meditations 2.4.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Meditations 2.3
Meditations 2.3: What in the world is providence?
“He Has Given His Victory to Us”: Luther on the Resurrection and Justification
Martin Luther on the connection between Christ’s resurrection and our justification.
Luther on the Kinds of Righteousness (2)
Martin Luther on passive, i.e. Christian, righteousness.
Luther on the Kinds of Righteousness (1)
Martin Luther delineates the different kinds of righteousness, so that that Christian righteousness can come mor sharply into focus.
“The Most Difficult Thing of All”: Luther on Justification and Passive Righteousness
Martin Luther on why believing in justification by faith alone is a matter of the highest art and skill.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Meditations 2.2
A new translation and commentary on Meditations 2.2.
Jesus the Ark: An Epigram from the Greek Anthology
A typological epigram about Jesus and the Ark of the Covenant.
Introducing the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Meditations 2.1 (Updated)
The Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν of Marcus Aurelius (literally Things to Himself, usually rendered as the Meditations)((As R.B. Rutherford points out in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, the title Meditations is modern, and the Greek title may not be Marcus's.)) is one of the most...
The Church in the World, Militant and Wave-Tossed: Hemmingsen on Luke 5
Yesterday's Gospel reading for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, according to the traditional Western lectionary, was Luke 5:1-11: And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,2 And saw two...