Augustine and Epictetus on death.
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A Note on Confessions 4.5.10
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...
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.