In Confessions 4.5.10, Augustine takes up the difficult question of why we often find grief and sadness to be, in a sense, pleasurable, without coming to a definite conclusion. The question is closely related to the theory of tragedy as a literary and dramatic genre...
E.J. Hutchinson
St. Augustine on the Death of His Friend
Some notes on Confessions 4.4.8-9.
“Deep Reliance,” or: What’s in an Adjective?
On David French’s adjectival style.
“Uncanny King, Perplexing Priest”: An Epigram from the Greek Anthology
A poetic paraphrase of Greek Anthology 1.66, on Melchizedek and Jesus.
Mike + the Mechanics and Genesis: Sons and Fathers
On the anniversary of two Genesis-related albums.
Bob Dylan: Infidels
On Bob Dylan’s Infidels.
Protestant Social Teaching: Law and the Christian
Like all the contributors, I suspect, I was very excited to see Davenant Press's recent volume, Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction,((Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction, edited by Onsi Aaron Kamel, Jake Meador, and Joseph Minich (Davenant Press,...
Names Writ in Water: An Addendum
More on “writing in water.”
“The Catechesis of the Sign”: An Epigram from the Greek Anthology
A poem on reading Genesis 22 under the Spirit’s tutelage.
On Making Students Memorize Prose (Again)
I mentioned previously the benefits of making students memorize prose (in Greek) and wrote a little bit on the first passage we worked on. Here is the second passage we learned from Gregory of Nyssa's Ad Simplicium. The first dealt with the Son in the economy of...