John Wilson reviews a new verse play featuring Calvin, Rabelais, and Ignatius of Loyola.
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Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure: A Review
Critics still wrestle with disentangling Freud from the reading of Wordsworth.
John Milton: The Pagan Puritan
What if the point of “Paradise Lost” was not what Milton thought of Satan, but what he thought of himself?
Davenant Staff Summer Reading List 2023
Find out what the Davenant Institute staff is reading this summer!
God in the Modern Wing: A Review
Attempts to find anything substantially Christian in modern art remain fruitless.
Augustine Against Vitalism
Against the charge that Christianity neuters human excellence, Augustine has already provided an answer.
A Gift to Read: A Prophecy of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)
On the death of America’s great novelist.
Entering the Temple: George Herbert’s “Church-porch” and Liturgical Poetics
How does George Herbert prepare the heart for worship with poetry?
Losing Your Religion
A new poetry collection proves that postmodern verses forms still pair badly with religious poetry.
Learning Apologetics from Augustine
History’s greatest theologian was also one its greatest apologists, and he has much to teach us.