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November 2003

November 01, 2003
Romans 2:1 forms a rather neat chiasm, particularly if we follow the Greek word order:...
November 01, 2003
Jouette Bassler’s article on “Divine Impartiality in Romans” (NovT, 1984) also includes a neat discussion...
November 01, 2003
Thinking is an odd sort of enterprise. It is spaceless, yet it has certain features...
November 01, 2003
In many respects, the issues in the current “Auburn Avenue” debate are not at all...

October 2003

October 31, 2003
Perhaps Sigurd, like Orestes, marks the beginning of a new order. Before Sigurd, the only...
October 31, 2003
Perhaps Sigurd, like Orestes, marks the beginning of a new order. Before Sigurd, the only...
October 31, 2003
In Italy, there is a raging debate over a judge’s ruling that crucifixes need to...
October 31, 2003
In the introduction to his translation of the Volsung Saga, Jesse Byock points out that...
October 30, 2003
In an essay on “The Hermeneutics of Difference” in a volume edited by Merold Westphal,...
October 30, 2003
From Dr. Johnson’s dictionary, a definition of “Oats”: “A grain, which in England is generally...
October 30, 2003
In his book “Is There A Meaning in This Text?” Kevin Vanhoozer explains Derrida’s dictum...
October 30, 2003
Postmodern tragedy is also rooted in Freud: For Freud, the id desires but is blocked...
October 30, 2003
Christopher Lynch ends a review of several books on just war ( Weekly Standard ,...
October 29, 2003
Evangelicals these days are positively giddy about worldview. For many, developing a Christian worldview is...
October 29, 2003
The internal contradictions of unitarianism: If God is finite, then there is a boundary, and...
October 29, 2003
To what extent does Platonism arise out of fear of contaminants, of miasma, of impurity?...
October 29, 2003
Several interesting articles in the current issue of JSOT : 1) Yairah Amit of Tel...
October 28, 2003
Back to reflections on post-modernism: It seems that Freud, not Nietzsche, is the really grandfather...
October 28, 2003
On courtly love: The basic shift is from the ancient and early medieval view that...
October 28, 2003
Jouette Bassler’s 1984 article “Divine Impartiality in Romans” ( Novum Testamentum ) present structural arguments...
October 28, 2003
It’s not at all accidental that postmodernism takes its rise in the mid-1960s. Bloom wrote...
October 28, 2003
It’s not at all accidental that postmodernism takes its rise in the mid-1960s. Bloom wrote...
October 28, 2003
Turns out that Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence” is just another variation on the same...
October 27, 2003
Jonathan Ree has this to say to the Platonic realist who is afraid of attacks...
October 27, 2003
Derrida explains Plato’s dualism as an effort to dominate writing (and, I suppose, reality) by...
October 27, 2003
Derrida explains Plato’s dualism as an effort to dominate writing (and, I suppose, reality) by...
October 27, 2003
Alan Jacobs reviews Stanley Hauerwas’s Against the Grain of the Universe in the current issue...
October 26, 2003
Exhortation for October 26: We pray every week that God’s kingdom would come. This is...
October 25, 2003
We speak of “sacred cows,” and think that we are using a dead and meaningless...
October 25, 2003
Jesus’ condemnation of the Pharisees’ concern with the “outside” is remarkable. He condemns them for...
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