Poetic Transcendence and the Way of Woman
A single, overtly innocuous question has recently become one of the loudest signs of our times: “What is a Woman?” Nationwide clamor was triggered by the question…
A single, overtly innocuous question has recently become one of the loudest signs of our times: “What is a Woman?” Nationwide clamor was triggered by the question…
Yoseop Ra. Paul, The Founder of Christianity. Eugene: OR, Resource Publications, 2021. I have said in another review on a recent book on the Apostle Paul…
David Christian Clausen. Meet Paul Again for the First Time: Jewish Apostle of Pagan Redemption. Eugene: OR, 2021. The Apostle Paul’s shadow looms large over Christianity…
John 9 offers us the memorable “parable” of the blind saved by Jesus.[1] The savior teaches us that the saved man was blind from birth “so that…
Western civilization is back in vogue, or, at least, is starting to have defenders again in the midst of civilizational malaise, crisis, and desecration. But what is…
I. In contradistinction to the efforts directed towards reviving modernity, several attempts to recover the older understanding of a common moral order, grounded in a disciplined habit…
I propose an inquiry into what Hans Jonas once called the “built-in, automatic utopianism” of our thought and actions. Jonas suggests that this “utopian drift” inheres in…
Introduction The purpose of this essay is to examine the legacy of Moses as a political leader in search of political order. The Mosaic conflict with the…
The very life of Martin Luther (1483-1546) manifested turbulence, over and over. From his troubled youth in Saxony (Erikson, 1958/1962), through his contretemps against the Roman Catholic…
Can it be that by looking very hard at something, we sometimes miss what we are staring at? The prophet Isaiah comes into the gospels and the Christian…
Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Bible. John J. Ranieri. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009. In Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin,…