An Easter Sunday meditation.
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Pierced Hands and Open Arms: The Irony of the Cross
A Good Friday meditation.
Anthropology: Key to Theology?
A classical anthropology can illuminate everything from the Trinity to politics.
Descartes Among the Ancients
Hobbes Called Descartes Ancient. Descartes Agreed.
Christ, the Way: Augustine’s Theology of Wisdom
Augustine understood Wisdom most importantly as the person of Christ, the One in Whom all things hold together.
“By God’s Gifts and the Widow’s Faith”: An Epigram on Elijah
Been a while; new poem today. In this post, I translate Greek Anthology 1.77, on 1 Kings 17, in which Elijah is fed by the widow. For anyone who heard John 6:1-15 for yesterday's Gospel reading, the theme will be familiar. The original is a single elegiac couplet. My...
Discovering Calvin’s Ecclesiology
What did the great Reformer believe about the Church?
Those Misunderstood Anabaptists
The Anabaptists are much malgined in Reformation history. But who were they, really?
Let’s Get Medieval
Why it’s worth studying the Church in medieval England.
Why Protestants Read Aristotle’s Ethics
In the Reformation, the Philosopher was used by the Reformers just as much as by Roman Catholics.