Martin Luther on a controversial Roman poet.
Upbuilding Discourses
“Purity of heart is to blog one thing.” -E.J. Hutchinson
Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (3): Solomon as “Dr. Politics” (2)
More from Luther on the causes of political order.
Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (2): Solomon as “Dr. Politics”
Get ready to have some paradigms shattered.
Luther on Aristotle’s Ethics (1)
Martin Luther on Aristotle and Cicero (with a bonus from Ovid for good measure).
Making Rome Great Again
Edward Gibbon on what made Rome a “great nation.”
“Love and Fear”: Another Epigram by Henrik Harder
An epigram on the love and fear of God.
“Up All Night, Annas Gluts Himself”: Georg Fabricius, Hymns 1.7
Here is the seventh poem in Georg Fabricius's hymn cycle. Here is a link to the sixth. The meter and rhyme-scheme is the same as the others. The Latin text: Nox intempesta. TERTIA PARS NOCTIS. Historia coram Pontificibus. CHRISTUS VINCTUS, ET adductus ad Annam. Zach....
Happy Alexander the Great Day!
Philip Melanchthon on Alexander the Great, on the anniversary of the latter’s death.
John Brown’s Two Bodies
Regardless of the purity of the perpetrator's motives, it is not without some justification that one might say terrorism should be frowned upon. This is a lesson that has proven difficult to learn for progressives on both the left and the right. Not so Abraham...
A Prayer from Melanchthon
A prayer found in Philip Melanchthon’s oration on Basil of Caesarea.