Category: Columns

Theodore Beza’s Verses on Peter Martyr Vermigli

E. J. Hutchinson — September 1, 2025

Theodore Beza’s Verses on Peter Martyr Vermigli

A new translation of Beza's poem on Peter Martyr Vermigli.

Who v What: Episcopalians and Presbyterians in 1788

Miles Smith — September 1, 2025

Who v What: Episcopalians and Presbyterians in 1788

Between 1785 and 1788 two major Protestant groups—parishioners in the Church of England and Presbyterians—confronted the political changes that occurred because of the founding of the American republic in the…

In Memoriam: St. John the Baptist

E. J. Hutchinson — August 29, 2025

In Memoriam: St. John the Baptist

An excerpt from Paulinus of Nola's miniature epic on St. John the Baptist, on the occasion of the commemoration of St. John's martyrdom.

Josephus and Jesus: an Informal Review of Schmidt’s New Argument

Andrew Koperski — August 28, 2025

Josephus and Jesus: an Informal Review of Schmidt’s New Argument

I had my doubts.

Zeugma in Bob Dylan’s “Isis”

E. J. Hutchinson — August 21, 2025

Zeugma in Bob Dylan’s “Isis”

The figure of zeugma in Vergil's AENEID and Bob Dylan's "Isis."

Hypermetry in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane”

E. J. Hutchinson — August 19, 2025

Hypermetry in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane”

On the prosody of Horace and Bob Dylan.

A Brief Political Theology from Eighth-Century Sinai: “Because I Couldn’t Find Anyone Worse!”

Andrew Koperski — August 14, 2025

A Brief Political Theology from Eighth-Century Sinai: “Because I Couldn’t Find Anyone Worse!”

Can we put this on a T-shirt for 2028?

Titus Andronicus in the Waste Land

E. J. Hutchinson — August 14, 2025

Titus Andronicus in the Waste Land

On T.S. Eliot's creative use of a play he hated in his most famous poem.

Tim Keller’s Ecclesiocentric Postliberalism

Miles Smith — August 6, 2025

Tim Keller’s Ecclesiocentric Postliberalism

When Timothy Keller published The Reason for God in 2008, the work was widely understood to be an apologetic for Christianity to secular liberal society. The work’s title alludes to…

A Fake John Chrysostom Letter: Eucharistic Dogma, Text Criticism, and Propaganda

Steven Wedgeworth — August 4, 2025

A Fake John Chrysostom Letter: Eucharistic Dogma, Text Criticism, and Propaganda

[This post was originally published on June 8, 2017. It is reprinted here with only minimal formatting updates.] Around the year 1548, Peter Martyr Vermigli published the following quote from…