Brad Littlejohn reviews a new book that appreciates — but struggles to comprehend — the breadth of Early Modern Protestant political thought
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A Grief Observed
An original poem on Achilles and Patroclus, by Benjamin Philips.
From the Editor’s Desk – Spring 2023
Our Senior Editor, Rhys Laverty, introduces the Spring 2023 issue of Ad Fontes
“Perfect Submission; Perfect Delight:” Fanny Crosby, Spousal Piety, and Muscular Christianity
Jacob Huneycutt explores how Fanny’s Crosby’s hymns of spousal piety continue to shape the Protestant imagination.
Folk Music: A Biography of Bob Dylan in Seven Songs and The Philosophy of Modern Song: A Review
Eric Hutchinson on the mark Bob Dylan’s music has left on the American imagination
The End of Interpretation: Reclaiming the Priority of Ecclesial Exegesis
Ephraim Radner reviews R. R. Reno’s new book on the interpreting Scripture within Church tradition
On Lying
Onsi Kamel explores Bonhoeffer’s mature thoughts on lying and its moral significance for Christians.
Roots of Anti-Confessionalism in Contemporary Evangelical Hermeneutics
How did evangelicals drift away from interpreting Scripture alongside within a confessional faith?
Mary in the Reformed Confessions
What do the Protestant confessions say about the Virgin Mary?
Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of the Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries
Brad Littlejohn looks for the positives in an overall disappointing volume on Natural Law in the Early Modern era