Peter J. Leithart

Philip Caldwell’s Liturgy As Revelation is a successful book on several levels. Caldwell fills out recent accounts of twentieth-century Catholicism by attending to some lesser-known figures associated in various ways with the nouvelle theologie: Rene Latourelle, Salvatore Marsili, Gustave . . . . Continue Reading »

Poe’s horror is the horror of guilt exposed. Continue Reading »

Proverbs 6 gives a sketch of what God hates. Continue Reading »

Robert Herrick’s reputation has waxed and waned with changing attitudes to small-scale poetry. Continue Reading »

Has Radical Orthodoxy gotten Scotus right? Continue Reading »

Can Europe assimilate Muslims while remaining European? Continue Reading »

Does secular order have the tools to address the question of radical Islam. Continue Reading »

Do we need the concept of “habit” to explain the life of salvation? Continue Reading »

How is the Bible’s world-picture related to ours? Continue Reading »

“Salt of the earth” is one of the best-known phrases in the Bible, but it’s more enigmatic than we realize. Salt has many qualities, and it’s not clear which one Jesus is highlighting. Does Jesus want disciples to preserve the world? Are disciples as necessary to the world as salt is to life? Are disciples the seasoning on a main course dished up by someone else? Continue Reading »