Peter J. Leithart

William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India explores the clash between modernization and tradition in contemporary India.  Early on, he illustrates with several anecdotes from his travels: “Outside Jodhpur, I visited a shrine and pilgrimage centre that . . . . Continue Reading »

The apertures of our body are doorways that mediate between outside and inside.  We normally think of them as intake points: Light enters our eyes and we see, molecules tickle the sensors in our noses and we smell, mouths and tongues are for tasting and eating. In the Song, the movement is . . . . Continue Reading »

Lexicons typically etymologize “Moriah” by linking it to the verb “see.”  Abraham tells Isaac that Yahweh will “see (as in “see to”) the lamb for the offering on the mountains of Moriah (Genesis 22:8, 14).  Moriah is where Yahweh provides a . . . . Continue Reading »

The Triune God is a God of peace.  Father, Son, and Spirit live in eternal and undisruptible harmony with one another. But harmony is not the same as the sheer “peace” of stasis.  We ought not, I think, figure the harmony of the Persons by analogy with the harmony of figures . . . . Continue Reading »

Orthodox ethicist Vigen Guroian suggests that conservative Protestantism in the US has relied on American Christendom to buttress itself.  American Christendom was the body for bodiless evangelical churches.  Now that Christendom is gone, there’s little holding evangelicalism up. . . . . Continue Reading »

Eric Enlow from the Handong University of South Korea writes with some clarifications about corporations and corporate law.  The rest of this post is all from Eric. I think Daly’s argument misses some important details.  The Berman quote does not demonstrate that medieval law . . . . Continue Reading »

Of the atonement, Robert Jenson writes: “We do not want to share the Son’s relation to the Father, we do not want there to be a Father; and that is why the one who said, ‘When you pray, say ‘Our Father,’ had to die.  The Father sends servant after servant and . . . . Continue Reading »

Isaiah 56:3, 6 promises that the sons of strangers will be joined to Yahweh.  Zechariah 2:11 says the same. In both passages, the verb “join” translates the Hebrew lawah , the verb on which the name “Levi” is a pun.  The prophets are not simply talking about . . . . Continue Reading »

In an interview on Ken Myers’ Mars Hill audio magazine, Lew Daly comments on the failure of American law to recognize the reality of groups.  Corporations are recognized as legal persons endowed with rights, but other groups are not.  This gives corporations enormous legal clout in . . . . Continue Reading »

In his book on the Peruvian village of Pomatamba, Adam K. Webb applies the much-mocked Distributism of GK Chesterton and Hillaire Belloc to issues of globalization and development.  In an interview available on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute web site, he answers a question of whether he . . . . Continue Reading »