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November 2018

November 05, 2018
Brief reflections on a sermon on Genesis 3 given by Eric Venable at Trinity Presbyterian...
November 01, 2018
This essay was first published in Credenda On the evening of April 6, 1994, a...

October 2018

October 31, 2018
In various places, Jean-Pierre Dupuy cites Adam Smith's claim that “speculation” is the essence of...
October 30, 2018
In various works, Rene Girard analyzes the "underground" of Dostoevsky, most elaborately presented in Notes...
October 28, 2018
Alan Jacobs has recently (How To Think) used CS Lewis’s essay on the “Inner Ring”...
October 26, 2018
A brief overview of key elements of the thought of Rene Girard. Mimetic desire. Desire...
October 26, 2018
A brief, sketchy outline applying the quadriga to various topics of Leviticus. The quadriga. Fourfold...
October 23, 2018
With Saudi Arabia in the news following the murder of journalist Jamal Kashoggi, there's an...
October 22, 2018
Gotta love Mary Midgley. She died on October 10 of this year, a month after...
October 18, 2018
Martyrdom is the true resistance to the powers and principalities that rule in heavenly places....
October 17, 2018
There were, of course, varieties of Enlightenment, some more favorable to tradition than others, but...
October 16, 2018
God speaks and light appears. He separates light and darkness, assigns names to each, and...
October 15, 2018
Jean-Marie Schaeffer (Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger (New...
October 11, 2018
John Rawls begins his Theory of Justice with what he describes as a "standard" social-scientific...
October 10, 2018
Ben Cobley's The Tribe  is a detailed, sobering examination of the left-liberal system of identity...
October 09, 2018
John the Baptist is like a sacrificial victim, a Passover lamb, innocently slaughtered (Matthew 14)....
October 08, 2018
Some observations on the final chapter of Chronicles (2 Chronicles 36). In the previous chapter,...
October 04, 2018
R. R. Reno offers an incisive analysis of the "rage politics" surrounding the Kavanaugh confirmation....
October 03, 2018
The Chronicler's account of Josiah's reign is glowingly positive. He seeks Yahweh, purges idolatry from...
October 02, 2018
I expressed some disagreements and some commendations for Seth Postell's Adam as Israel a few...
October 01, 2018
David devotes a great deal of attention to organizing Levitical singers (1 Chronicles 25) and...

September 2018

September 27, 2018
Commodification is a three step dance, according to John McKnight and Peter Block (Abundant Community)....
September 26, 2018
I don't agree with Seth Postell's fundamental thesis in Adam as Israel. He states the...
September 25, 2018
The Chronicler carefully lays out the chronology of Josiah's reign (2 Chronicles 34-35). 1)Becomes king...
September 24, 2018
Bo and Ben Winegard analyze today's "Great Awokening" as a religious movement. They deploy the...
September 19, 2018
Here's a connection I missed in my commentary on Revelation. One of hundreds. In Numbers...
September 18, 2018
In a chapter in The Social in Question, Bruno Latour summarizes the work of 19th-century...
September 17, 2018
The Ten Words are a portrait of the true Israel, the true Adamic Son. They...
September 13, 2018
God speaks worlds into existence, worlds that do not have the capacity to respond before...
September 12, 2018
Some typically sharp observations from a 1995 essay by Robert Jenson (Either/Or). First, on pluralism...
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