“Light-Conveying Light Eternal”: Another Greek Prayer in Verse
I had a lot of fun working on the Greek poem last week, so this week’s “Melancthon Monday” is once again…not Melanchthon. But, Christian humanist that he was, I don’t…
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
I had a lot of fun working on the Greek poem last week, so this week’s “Melancthon Monday” is once again…not Melanchthon. But, Christian humanist that he was, I don’t…
It is reasonable to suggest that the deep roots of the New Criticism–the position that what matters for the critical task is “the text,” not the author, his biography, his…
For “Melanchthon Monday” this week I’m calling an audible; there is no Melanchthon at all. Sad, I know. But I have something for you that I hope will still prove…
In his Parallel Lives, Plutarch links Theseus, the legendary King of Athens, with Romulus, the first (legendary?) King of Rome. As is the case with most of the paired Lives,…
For this week’s “Melanchthon Monday,” a short poem–only a couplet–on prayer, inspired by Luke 24. EX LUCA 24. CAPITE. Ut tua pertingat, penetretque precatio caelum, Ardenti fiat speque fideque frequens.…
Psalm 145:18 says, “The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth” (ESV). If we read the Psalms in light of…
September 14 marks Holy Cross Day. In honor of the cross of Christ, here are a couple of justly famous paragraphs from Martin Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation (1518) on what it…
I didn’t have time to prepare a proper “Melanchthon Monday” this week. On the other hand, I discovered via Twitter this morning that one of my essays is appearing in…
At long last, I’m making good on my promise to finish off the Burke series. In the first two posts, we looked at the problems–and they are legion–caused by revolutionary…
For Melanchthon Monday this week, we’re taking a hiatus from the series “Then in Distress We Upraise,” but don’t worry: we’ll get back to it. (I know you were worried.)…
