The President as Protestant Warlord
This week US President Donald Trump wielded the startling powers of the United States presidency when he dismissed senior generals and replaced them with handpicked successors. While there was nothing…
This week US President Donald Trump wielded the startling powers of the United States presidency when he dismissed senior generals and replaced them with handpicked successors. While there was nothing…
A theory on Catullus and the end of Vergil's Aeneid.
Melanchthon on the meaning of "good" in the Bible, Stoicism, and Aristotle.
The question of the Bible and Biblical authority defined debates among nineteenth century American Protestants as they appealed to the Christian scriptures to justify positions in political debates. Most Protestants…
A poetic version of the "Song of Simeon," based on the fourth-century Latin poet Juvencus.
My college recently started its Center for Military History and Strategy. We’ve been able to bring in some of the best historians whose work intersects military history, the Classics, philosophy,…
On poetic inspiration and transmigration in Homer, Ennius, Buddy Holly, and Bob Dylan.
In the third volume of Charles Hodge’s 1871 Systematic Theology, the Princeton Seminary professor offered a formula for how Protestants should understand moral responsibility in the context of what is…
On a Dylan allusion in the live version of Warren Zevon's "Mohammed's Radio."
Let's throw another monkey wrench into the plentiful oversimplifications of Christian-Roman relations.