Theodore Beza’s Verses on Peter Martyr Vermigli
A new translation of Beza's poem on Peter Martyr Vermigli.
Who v What: Episcopalians and Presbyterians in 1788
Between 1785 and 1788 two major Protestant groups—parishioners in the Church of England and Presbyterians—confronted the political changes that occurred because of the founding…
In Memoriam: St. John the Baptist
An excerpt from Paulinus of Nola's miniature epic on St. John the Baptist, on the occasion of the commemoration of St. John's martyrdom.
Josephus and Jesus: an Informal Review of Schmidt’s New Argument
I had my doubts.
Zeugma in Bob Dylan’s “Isis”
The figure of zeugma in Vergil's AENEID and Bob Dylan's "Isis."
Hypermetry in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane”
On the prosody of Horace and Bob Dylan.
A Brief Political Theology from Eighth-Century Sinai: “Because I Couldn’t Find Anyone Worse!”
Can we put this on a T-shirt for 2028?
Titus Andronicus in the Waste Land
On T.S. Eliot's creative use of a play he hated in his most famous poem.
Tim Keller’s Ecclesiocentric Postliberalism
When Timothy Keller published The Reason for God in 2008, the work was widely understood to be an apologetic for Christianity to secular liberal…
A Fake John Chrysostom Letter: Eucharistic Dogma, Text Criticism, and Propaganda
[This post was originally published on June 8, 2017. It is reprinted here with only minimal formatting updates.] Around the year 1548, Peter Martyr…
Josephus: It’s Hard Having a Big Family
Even for kings, it turns out.
Thoughts On When People Become Anglican
So the Evangelicals of the internet had a medium-sized explosion this past week as Matthew Barrett announced that he is becoming Anglican. The whole…
The Paradox of Ekphrasis
On the visual in the verbal, the timeless in the temporal.
Is There A Calvinist Doctrine of the Trinity?
[This essay was originally posted in May of 2012. It is reposted here in its original form with only slight formatting changes.] Recent years…
Allusion without End (3)
One-upping the Romans in Christian epic.
The Fake Slogans of Church History
By now we have all learned the rule that if a C S Lewis quote (or St. Augustine quote or a Martin Luther quote)…
Antebellum Southern Presbyterians Against Southern Politics
In the 160 years between the US Civil War and 2025, history and literature of the American South have offered an ahistorical blending of…
Luther’s “On the Freedom of a Christian,” Versified
Metrical Martin Luther.
Allusion without End (2)
Vergil (and Ovid?) in Longfellow.
Tennyson’s Ulysses as Shakespeare’s Hamlet? (Edited)
The sources for Tennyson’s great poem Ulysses are almost as, shall we say, polytropic as Homer’s Odysseus. But one of them, I am convinced,…
“Beyond the Sea”: Darin and Stevens in Key West
On Bob Dylan, Bobby Darin, and Wallace Stevens.
Allusion without End
Political Vergil in domestic Ovid.
The Classical Dylan, Again
In “Narrow Way,” on the 2012 album Tempest, Bob Dylan sings: You got too many lovers waiting at the wallIf I had a thousand…
Difference but not Disagreement: A Rejoinder to Kevin DeYoung and James Baird on the 1788 Revisions to the Westminster Confession
Rev. Dr. Kevin DeYoung and Rev. James Baird, two teaching elders in the Presbyterian Church in America, have recently carried on a civil but…
Something Fishy in Colchester
James Ussher and Samuel Ward were British (Irish and English) theologians and clergymen in the 17th cent. They were good friends and wrote many…
Augustine’s Ascent to God Is Also Our Ascent
Augustine wrote “On the Trinity” partly to guide readers in their knowledge of God. In this pursuit, he self-consciously followed dominical sayings such as,…
“Calvinism” and the Anglican Way: An Interaction with Bishop Ray Sutton
Back in January, Ray Sutton, the Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, wrote a lengthy essay on Anglican identity. It began as commentary…
New Book on Josephus and Jesus
This is just a short public service announcement drawing attention to T. C. Schmidt’s hot-off-the-digital-presses Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called…
Refusing Rebaptism in Dionysius of Alexandria
After all, what's more important than getting baptism right?
What Does Jesus Mean by “Not my will, but yours be done”?
When Jesus prayed, “not my will, but yours be done” (Matt 26:39), he declared himself to be united in willing redemption with the Father.…
The Search for the French Baptismal Liturgy
(This essay was originally published on May 20, 2018.) For you, little child,Jesus Christ has come, he has fought, he has suffered.For you he…
Welcome to the Anglican International
Welcome to the Anglican International, a continuing exploration in Reformed Irenicism. I plan to write about church history, liturgy, select theology, relevant socio-political matters,…
The Book that Started It All
Well, sort of. The name John Davenant was not exactly unheard of twenty years ago. Banner of Truth had reprinted his commentary on Colossians.…
Nationhood and Old High Churchmen in the pre-Tractarian Church of England
By the late Victorian Era, Church of England and to a lesser extent Protestant Episcopal Church clerics and intellectuals began to write works aiming…
Eusebius on Mary in Psalm 69
I am once again asking the people to please read a primary source.
Is Ecumenism for Evangelical Squishes?
The answer may surprise you.
Darwinism and Race in Gilded Age Southern Presbyterianism
The aftermath of the Civil War saw a significant rethinking of racial theory among southern Presbyterians. Benjamin Morgan Palmer Jr. and Robert Lewis Dabney…
“Thunder on the Mountain”: An Addendum on “Tombstone”
An allusion to "Tombstone" in "Thunder on the Mountain"?
Crossing the T: Lucian, Pilate, and Crucifixion
Sending the dubiously accused to the electric chair is a severe miscarriage of justice.
“Let Me Die, Lest I Die”: Martial in St. Augustine?
On a peculiar phrase in St. Augustine's Confessions.
