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).
On the one will of God. Continue Reading »
Aristotle's proto-Marxist treatment of democracy. Continue Reading »
On the genealogy of David in 1 Chronicles 3. Continue Reading »
God's freedom is not freedom to be whatever. Continue Reading »
Singing in the Medieval Mass. Continue Reading »
The Anglican Communion's missionary success comes back to haunt it. Continue Reading »
On the healing power of music and story in Shakespeare's Pericles. Continue Reading »
Trinitarian unity, equality, harmony. Continue Reading »
Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples “ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.” “Dignity” appears several other times in the opinion. Prior to the twentieth century, Kennedy . . . . Continue Reading »
How apocalyptic excitement shaped American evangelicalism. Continue Reading »
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