Romans

Primordial Elements

It is a privilege to read each day online and each month in print the compelling, orderly prose of some of the sharpest critics of the state of religion and public life today. Continue Reading »

19 Dec 2023

Augustus and the Salvation of Rome

by James Hankins

The story of Rome gives us hope in our own day: Times of political collapse will pass, and they can also bring forth unexpected greatness. Continue Reading »

7 Nov 2023

Roman Occupation and Jewish Rebellion

by Mark Bauerlein

Guy MacLean Rogers joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66–74 CE. Continue Reading »

9 Jun 2022

The words “piety” and “pious” have an archaic ring; moderns find them hard to use without irony or a sneer. Pejorative senses of the words predominate, such as those the Oxford English Dictionary gives for “piety” (“a sanctimonious statement, a commonplace”) and for . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2020

No Salvation Without the Other

by Wesley Hill

We are all of us together suffering the consequences of Christian sin, so that we may all of us together receive mercy.
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7 Sep 2018

Weaving Chapter 13 Back into Romans

by James R. Rogers

When read in isolation, Romans 13 doesn’t fit well with Paul’s argument in the rest of the epistle. Continue Reading »

10 May 2017

Reading Romans 1 & 2 on the Feast of St. Paul

by Fr. Dominic Bouck

This has been a wild weekend. The Supreme Court handing down its decisive ruling that marriage is malleable was not surprising, but it created an air of certainty and solemnity to the fact that proponents of a traditional society—Christians, Jews, Muslims, and non-religious alike—have lost . . . . Continue Reading »

29 Jun 2015

Jews as the Romans Saw Them

by Robert Louis Wilken

Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations by martin goodman knopf, 624 pages, $35 When I first saw the title of this book, I thought of Tertullian’s famous question: What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? But Goodman did not have Tertullian in mind when he chose his title. He was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2008