Evangelicals and Liberalism: A Love Story That Never Happened
In 2008, James Wellman, a historian at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, published Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash…
Three Poems on the Parable of the Vineyard
Some poems on Matthew 20:1-16.
The Scandal of Evangelical Political Theology
The late Rev. Dr. Richard Turnbull wrote in 2022 that it was a mistake to think that political theology was an afterthought in John…
When is Liturgical Diversity Acceptable? Sozomen and Forged Apostolic Literature
Surely, ancient Christians always erred on the side of doctrinal and liturgical purity?
Paul Oskar Kristeller and “Historical Pluralism”
On how to look backward.
Open Doors or Moral Example? The Forgotten Protestant Argument Against Intervention and Mass Immigration
In the reactionary aftermath of the great liberal revolutions that rocked Europe in 1848–49, liberal heroes, or heroes who were at least perceived to…
“Home Improvement” and Horace
During the break, I was watching some reruns of Home Improvement, that great Tim Allen vehicle of the 1990s. In S5E6, “Let Them Eat…
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (6)
Here is Melanchthon on Romans 13 from the Dispositio orationis in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos with the next two paragraphs added. Translation Romans 13 Proposition: “Let…
Special Festive Edition: Where the New Religious Right (Badly) Misunderstands Constantine
'Tis the season for an airing of intellectual grievances!
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (5)
On the necessity of civil ordinances, such as laws, contracts, and courts.
Cosmas Indicopleustes: a Sixth-Century Merchant with a Lutheran View of Scripture?
And they say that Lutheranism doesn't travel as well as Calvinism.
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (4)
On respect for magistrates.
Thoughts on a KJV Christmas
My World Opinions piece on using the King James Version of the Bible for Christmas has gotten some attention. It’s been an “editor’s pick”…
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (3)
Melanchthon on Romans 13 and Plato's Republic.
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (2)
More from Melanchthon on Romans 13.
Does the US Military do the Work of Heaven? Augustine, Earthly Peace, and the Birth of Christian Power
Christianity informs the peace of earth organized and implemented by the American military abroad and domestically, and American soldiers implement that same peace
Melanchthon on Romans 13 (1)
The first in a series on Melanchthon on Romans 13.
Thessalonike, the Theotokos, and the Proper Place of Relics
Relics didn't function quite like they do in Age of Empires.
Happy Thanksgiving: Melanchthon on Gratitude
An excerpt from Philip Melanchthon's "Summary of Moral Philosophy" on being thankful.
Whence St. Augustine’s “Restless Heart”?
Have you ever wondered about St. Augustine's "restless heart"?
An Example of Christian Influence on Imperial-Era Greek Philosophy (and Why It Makes One Gloomy about the Present)
Because presentist gloom is good for clicks.
The “East Wind” in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
On Binx Bolling and the Red Sea.
Two Vergilian Reminscences? Shakespeare and Dylan
Vergil in (maybe) Shakespeare and Dylan.
From Pagan to Christian in the Geography of Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
What does geography tell us about the religious world of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer?
Dispensationalists, the Groypers, and Christian Obsession with Jews
University of Florida professor Samuel Goldman has an important piece at Compact Magazine this week. Christian Zionism, Goldman rightly notes, is not a creation…
“Faith,” Proof, and Intellectual Honesty
Faith isn't really supposed to be a "leap."
A New Intertext in the Unreal City?: Eliot and Apollonius
Does Eliot allude to Apollonius of Rhodes in "The Waste Land"?
Cavafy and Apollonius
Apollonian echoes in Cavafy?
Apollonius of Rhodes Corrects Homer
On "wrath" in the Iliad and the Argonautika.
Anglican Political Theology: Syllogism instead of Tables
An essential aspect of debates over political theology and Christian politics in the 21st century revolves around the question of whether the government can…
Do Christians Have to Master Greek to Remain Orthodox?
A case study on Christological formulae.
Screwtape to Hamlock on “Recent Events”
Letter 201
“Mature Poets Steal”?: Dylan and Eliot (Updated)
On Bob Dylan as a reader of T.S. Eliot.
*King of Kings* and Political Theology in the 21st Century
James Baird, a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, is releasing his King of Kings: A Reformed Guide to Christian Government this…
Literary Contamination in “Crossing the Rubicon”: Homer in Bob Dylan, Again
More allusivity in Bob Dylan, this time in "Crossing the Rubicon."
How Applicable is Classical Political Philosophy?
There's a scale problem.
The Magistrate as “Shepherd of the People”
Niels Hemmingsen on rulers as shepherds.
Allusion in Bob Dylan’s “Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love)”
Some allusions in Bob Dylan's "Tight Connection to My Heart" (Empire Burlesque, 1985).
A New (?) Allusion (?) in “Narrow Way”: Dylan and Homer, Again
More on Homer in Dylan.
Tertullian and Pagan Education: The Athens-and-Jerusalem Canard
On that quip that is "too good to check."
