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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Moderns as much as “primitives” attribute life to images. Continue Reading »
The following is taken from a paper that was delivered at a conference sponsored by the Center for Pastor Theologians on November 3.In his 2005 book, The Enlightenment Bible, Jonathan Sheehan describes changes in the Bible’s role in Germany and England between the late seventeenth and . . . . Continue Reading »
Preachers should tell congregations to do what Jesus commanded: That is, to “Do this.” Continue Reading »
Abortion and the uses of the body. Continue Reading »
Lear leaves kings haunted the fear they are nothing. Continue Reading »
On the poets of the Great War. Continue Reading »
Babylon's sins stick to heaven, and there is no way to remove them. Continue Reading »
How harlot Babylon is repaid. Continue Reading »
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