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December 2005

December 11, 2005
Mothering an infant is a thankless task. First, you have to carry a large, heavy...
December 10, 2005
In his fascinating book on aging and the brain ( The Wisdom Paradox , 2005),...
December 10, 2005
It’s hard to pick up a magazine today without finding an article defending Darwin or...
December 10, 2005
It’s hard to pick up a magazine today without finding an article defending Darwin or...
December 10, 2005
Sky High focuses on Will Stronghold, son of the greatest superhero duo in history -...
December 10, 2005
In his book on the Motherhood of the church, Henri de Lubac notes that “Calvin...
December 09, 2005
The sign of Jonah is certainly the death-resurrection of Jonah 2, as well as the...
December 08, 2005
Lindberg points out that “Calvin’s Protestant contemporaries did not view Geneva as a vengeful theocracy....
December 08, 2005
Lindberg points out that “Calvin’s Protestant contemporaries did not view Geneva as a vengeful theocracy....
December 08, 2005
Lindberg summarizes the important, if sometimes inadvertent, cultural contributions of monasticism: “Monastic culture was not...
December 08, 2005
In his recent Brief History of Christianity , Carter Lindberg suggests that “orthodoxy is the...
December 07, 2005
In his book on the work of Christ, Robert Letham has this neat summary of...
December 06, 2005
Philip Hardie argues that the shield of Aeneas in Virgil’s Aeneid makes significant use not...
December 06, 2005
Andrew Bowie’s *Aesthetics and subjectivity from Kant to Nietzsche* emphasizes the role of aesthetic theory...
December 05, 2005
For postmoderns, there is a close link between the timeless self of ancient and modern...
December 05, 2005
A bit of nonsense from several years ago. Scene 1 Mr Faust sitting in a...
December 05, 2005
INTRODUCTION The Roman Catholic church teaches many false things about Mary the mother of Jesus,...
December 05, 2005
Michel Foucault suggests that the modern exalation of sight, the gaze, particularly the medical gaze,...
December 05, 2005
The Western quest for “personal identity” rests, in part, on a confusion of different senses...
December 05, 2005
Grading several papers on Esther, it occurs to me that the book is more about...
December 04, 2005
Calvin O. Schrag has this helpful critique of what he calls the “foundationalist paradigm”: It...
December 04, 2005
The magi come searching for Jesus from the east, from Persia, moving west toward the...
December 04, 2005
The Israel that the Son of God entered in the incarnation was not some pristine,...
December 04, 2005
Matthew 1:24-2:1: And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the...
December 04, 2005
Joseph is often a neglected character in the Christmas story. In paintings and crèches, he...
December 03, 2005
This is not a paper, and that is not an ironic self-referential comment like Magritte’s...
December 02, 2005
1 John 1:1-3 describes how those who never saw, heard, or handled the incarnate word...
December 01, 2005
John Kleinig suggests that Luke’s account of the Transfiguration alludes to the feast of booths:...

November 2005

November 29, 2005
Zygmunt Bauman, in the book mentioned above, traces the shifts in Western cultural imagination from...
November 29, 2005
An etymology of “conservative” from the online Dictionary of the History of Ideas (): In...
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