Category: Columns

Fragment of an Early Draft of “Riddles in the Dark”

Andrew Koperski — January 22, 2025

Fragment of an Early Draft of “Riddles in the Dark”

An important chapter in The Hobbit might have looked much different.

“Blood on the Tracks”: Some Intra-Dylan Allusions

E. J. Hutchinson — January 20, 2025

“Blood on the Tracks”: Some Intra-Dylan Allusions

On internal allusions in Bob Dylan's lyrics.

Authenticity and Authority: Origen on the Tension of Philology and Canon

Andrew Koperski — January 15, 2025

Authenticity and Authority: Origen on the Tension of Philology and Canon

What do you do if you find an inauthentic biblical passage that's accepted in the wider Church?

Housman, Williams, Dylan: On Poetic Diction

E. J. Hutchinson — January 7, 2025

Housman, Williams, Dylan: On Poetic Diction

Speaking poetically in the works of A.E. Housman, Hank Williams, and Bob Dylan.

Eusebius on Asceticism and Christian Civilization

Andrew Koperski — January 6, 2025

Eusebius on Asceticism and Christian Civilization

Eusebius on the Two Ways of Christian Life

Fact and Fiction in Authorial Personae: Bob Dylan and Nathaniel Hawthorne

E. J. Hutchinson — January 2, 2025

Fact and Fiction in Authorial Personae: Bob Dylan and Nathaniel Hawthorne

On a possible allusion of Bob Dylan to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

“St. Herman’s Church”: Melville in Dylan

E. J. Hutchinson — December 17, 2024

“St. Herman’s Church”: Melville in Dylan

On Bob Dylan and MOBY-DICK.

Who Invented the Idea of “Canonical” Scriptures?

Andrew Koperski — December 17, 2024

Who Invented the Idea of “Canonical” Scriptures?

A case that the terminology dates back to the third century.

Conan the Dionysian?

E. J. Hutchinson — December 13, 2024

Conan the Dionysian?

On Conan the Barbarian and Euripides.

“I have therefore returned to the faith of my childhood”: Moral Law, Grace, and Nature in the Political Theology of François Guizot

Miles Smith — December 9, 2024

“I have therefore returned to the faith of my childhood”: Moral Law, Grace, and Nature in the Political Theology of François Guizot

No French Reformed Protestant influenced and informed French politics in the 19th Century more than François Guizot. Best known as King Louis-Philippe’s last prime minister, Guizot served in some political…