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).
John’s apocalyptic visions track the history of Moses. John is a true prophet in the Mosaic tradition. Continue Reading »
The modern world owes more to ancient Egypt than we might guess. Continue Reading »
Late antique Egyptians told their own versions of the exodus, and these had some grim lasting effects on the West. Continue Reading »
Hellenism didn’t conquer other cultural forms. It provided, Jan Assmann suggests, a flexible medium for cross-cultural translation. Continue Reading »
Robert Kaplan says that the South China Sea is the new Caribbean basin. Continue Reading »
The inside scoop on airplane seating from the New Yorker. Continue Reading »
Who is Spenser’s Una? Continue Reading »
Why does God have an emerald rainbow around His heavenly throne? Continue Reading »
The prologue to John’s gospel lays out an overview of the whole. Continue Reading »
Whether or not Augustine was right to say the Spirit is “love” and “gift” depends on what we think the Bible is for. Continue Reading »
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