Peter J. Leithart

It’s obvious that, in Heidegger’s terms, human art remake earth -stone is remade into sculpture, the components of paint into a scene or a portrait. Heidegger also insists that art remakes world, reshapes the human environment by redrawing boundaries of earth and world. Heidegger . . . . Continue Reading »

In his essay on the “Origin of the Work of Art,” Heidegger attacks the traditional metaphysics of form and matter. There is no formless matter, he insists, and human beings must take account of the particular forms in which matter comes to us in order to make use of it. The essential . . . . Continue Reading »

Brian Brock writes of Heidegger’s essay on “Nietzsche’s Word”: “The concept of ‘art’ as a replacement for Descartes’s ‘certainty’ attracts Heidegger not least because a public and social horizon is built into it: truth grows from an . . . . Continue Reading »

From the Russian mystic Nikolay Fydorov: “The task of the fathers, the parents, ends with the upbringing of the children; then begins the task of the sons, who restore life. In giving birth to and raising their children, the parents give life to them, while the task of resurrection belongs . . . . Continue Reading »

Exodus 17:5-6: And the LORD said to Moses, “Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water . . . . Continue Reading »

On New Year’s Eve, an Egyptian Muslim blew himself up outside a Coptic church in Alexandria, killing 25 Christians and injuring 90 others. At the end of January this year, eleven Christians were killed in a massacre in the village of Sharona. These were only two of many attacks on Coptic . . . . Continue Reading »

In her Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel , Lee Palmer Wandel shows that images in medieval Christianity were modes of God’s presence. In attacking images, Protestant iconoclasts were acting on an alternative understanding of that . . . . Continue Reading »

Why did Luther react so violently to Zwingli on the one hand and the Anabaptists on the other? He wasn’t because he insisted on his own formula for the real presence or baptism. As Jaroslav Pelikan pointed out in his 1968 Spirit versus Strcuture , “when Luther was confronted with a . . . . Continue Reading »

Doug Bandow wrote the following for the American Spectator Online back in January: “Dina Guirguis of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy testified last week before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: ‘Egypt’s native Christians . . . . . Continue Reading »

A number of students writing on John 13 have noticed the oddity that Jesus washes the disciples feet - an act of hospitality in preparation for a meal - but then they never eat. It’s a feast interrupted. I suspect that has something to do with the interaction between John and Revelation. For . . . . Continue Reading »