Hadley Arkes’s new book grounds the foundations of Natural Law in the truths of moral reason.
The Wife of Bath
An original poem by Betsy Howard
Shelter from the Storm: Bob Dylan and the Power of Narrative in a Storyless World
For a time, one of the 20th century’s greatest storytellers found rest in the greatest story ever told.
Against Misenchantment: Defending A Protestant View of Creation
Rhys Laverty pushes back against recent charge about the Reformation’s “de-enchantment” of Creation
Data
An original poem by Betsy Howard
Melanchthon’s Commentary on Proverbs: A Review
A new translation of Melanchthon’s commentary on Proverbs disappoints, says E.J. Hutchinson.
Cosmic Connections: A Review
Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press. 2024. 640 pp. Hardcover. $37.95 Although British Romanticism was born out of the crucible of the French Revolution, it also represents the first great protest movement against one of the major causes of the Revolution, the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment privileged reason over imagination, analysis over synthesis, logic over intuition, the active over the passive, the scientific over the mystical, the physical over the metaphysical, the city over the country, urban sophistication over rustic simplicity. Romantic poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats all sought in their work to reverse those counters and to reconnect themselves to the unseen spirit that runs through man and nature. This reversal and reconnection are made evident in Wordsworth’s “Expostulation and Reply,” a poem he included in the collection of poems…
Second James
Fragments from the lost epistle of Second James.
Seminary, Deep Comedy, and the Christian Life
What hath seminary to do with comedy?
Reformed Catholic Pietism: An Evangelical Defence of Anglican Devotionalism
Was the 17th century really a Romanizing one in the Church of England?