Peter J. Leithart

When Twitter went public recently, it was valued at $24 billion, with revenue of $535 million. 300 billion tweets have been sent since Twitter began, and that number increases by half a billion a day. What’s curious about this, James Surowieki writes in The New Yorker, is that Twitter uses . . . . Continue Reading »

Nathan Heller explores the “new corporatism” touted by Apple, Google, Amazon and others in The New Yorker : These companies are “proud models of novel efficiency, and yet, in the same breath, they claim that efficiency isnt their real priority. Brad Stone says that Bezos touts his . . . . Continue Reading »

Kirk Davis Swinehart reviews Denise Spellberg’s Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders in the NYTBR this week. Spellberg “”traces the partial origins of American religious toleration to a single day in 1765 when Jefferson, then studying law at the College of . . . . Continue Reading »

The final installment of James Jordan’s essay on “restoring the office of woman in the church” is up at the Trinity House web site. . . . . Continue Reading »

At the outset of his Demonstratio Evangelica , Eusebius makes a case for the limitations of the Mosaic system and the universal applicability of the new covenant in Christ. The case has two remarkable features: First, it is an utterly pragmatic case; second, it is a case made from Torah. Pragmatism . . . . Continue Reading »

Perichoresis was originally a Christological notion, describing the mutual penetration-without-mixture of the divine and human natures in Christ. It of course became primarily a concept in Trinitarian theology, but, according to Verna Harrison, in Maximus it was understood as an anthropological and . . . . Continue Reading »

Gregory of Nyssa rarely uses the specific language of perichoresis , but Daniel Stramara argues in a 1998 Vigiliae Christianae article that he uses different language to make very similar claims about the communion that is the Triune God. Specifically, he uses the words periphero and anakuklesis , . . . . Continue Reading »

NT Wright, once again, explicates the “shape of justification” ( Paul and the Faithfulness of God) , setting it interestingly in the context of Paul’s doctrine of election, reshaped by the work of the Spirit. That perhaps another day. For now, an observation on Wright’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Marilynne Robinson reviews Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal in the NYTBR . At one point O’Connor thanks God for making her his instrument, and Robinson ponders: “Every writer wonders where fictional ideas come from. The best of them often appear very abruptly after a . . . . Continue Reading »

In her TLS review of the Royal Shakespeare production of Richard II, Katherine Duncan-Jones points out that the play is “the most consistently poetic of all Shakespeare’s plays,” without any speeches in prose, even from Welshmen, gardeners, and grooms. The effect is comically to . . . . Continue Reading »