Peter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, and an adjunct Senior Fellow at New St. Andrews College. He is author, most recently, of Gratitude: An Intellectual History (Baylor).
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Substitution isn’t a strange anomaly in the gospel, but the structure of human life. Continue Reading »
White Christmas is Christmas without Christ. Continue Reading »
Ontologizing death. Continue Reading »
Christ’s sacrifice has to deal with wrath. Continue Reading »
Origen on the atonement. Continue Reading »
The ritual chiasm of the purification offering indicates the movement of sin and impurity in the tabernacle. Continue Reading »
Jesus’ message is twofold: The kingdom is free, and it is now. Continue Reading »
Bruno Latour’s 1993 We Have Never Been Modern is a neglected masterpiece. Its argument is compressed, the terminology idiosyncratic. Latour is witty, ironic, and funniest when he’s outraged. It’s not an easy book, but it’s worth the effort. As a diagnosis of us “moderns,” it’s more penetrating, and rings truer, than many better-known works. Continue Reading »
King Jeroboam I loomed large in early modern political debates. Continue Reading »
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