Ought We Anoint the Dying?

by Peter J. Leithart

Is there a Protestant rationale for anointing the dying? Continue Reading »

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Jeroboam in Early Modernity

by Peter J. Leithart

King Jeroboam I loomed large in early modern political debates. Continue Reading »

18 Dec 2014 0

Trent and Sacrifice

by Peter J. Leithart

Trent said that the Mass was a sacrifice. It never defined sacrifice. Continue Reading »

18 Dec 2014 0

Anti-Patriarchal Patriarchs

by Peter J. Leithart

The patriarchal stories of Genesis don’t conform to patriarchal expectations. Continue Reading »

18 Dec 2014 0

Wives and Daughters

by Peter J. Leithart

Daughters and wives in the primeval history of Genesis 1-11. Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2014 0

Reshuffling Sacraments

by Peter J. Leithart

The post-Reformation distinction of polity and church was a distinction in varieties of ritual. Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2014 0

Impure Modernity

by Peter J. Leithart

Modernity vaunted “purity” of domains is a delusion. Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2014 0

The Gods of Economics

by Peter J. Leithart

We’ve been disabused of belief in the divine right of kings. But our economics is still mystical. Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2014 0

Impurity - Thinking Makes It So

by Peter J. Leithart

For Paul, uncleanness is not in things but in minds. Continue Reading »

16 Dec 2014 0

Hamann’s Hume

by Peter J. Leithart

Believer Hamann in praise of the skeptic HUme. Continue Reading »

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