First Things RSS Feed - Michael C. Legaspi https://www.firstthings.com/author/michael-c-legaspi en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:09 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/michael-c-legaspi 60 Changing God’s Mind https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/12/changing-gods-mind https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/12/changing-gods-mind Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:15:00 -0500 The Widening of God's Mercy:
Sexuality Within the Biblical Story
by christopher b. hays and richard b. hays
 yale university, 288 pages, $28

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]]> Ancient Patterns of Prayer https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/02/ancient-patterns-of-prayer https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/02/ancient-patterns-of-prayer Thu, 27 Feb 2020 06:00:00 -0500 Today, we tend to think of prayer as an individual activity, a chance to talk to God one-on-one. But in each of the three Abrahamic faiths, prayer has traditionally been a communal, structured practice, less a “dialogue” between man and God than a time to approach the King as loyal and humble subjects. These ancient patterns of prayer are an antidote to the atomization of modern life. 

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]]> The Church’s Book https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/12/the-churchs-book https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/12/the-churchs-book Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500 The Bible in a Disenchanted Age:
The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faith
 by r. w. l. moberly
 baker, 240 pages, $24.99

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]]> Figure It In https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/06/figure-it-in https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/06/figure-it-in Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0400 Time and the Word:
Figural Reading of the Christian Scriptures
 by ephraim radner
 eerdmans, 326 pages, $50

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]]> All Things to All People https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/10/all-things-to-all-people https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/10/all-things-to-all-people Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0400 Paul as a Problem in History and Culture: The Apostle and His Critics through the Centuries
by patrick gray
baker, 274 pages, $32.99

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]]> Go Figure https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/12/go-figure https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/12/go-figure Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0500 Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness
by richard b. hays
 baylor, 177 pages, $34.95

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]]> The Consolation of Philology https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/10/the-consolation-of-philology https://www.firstthings.com/article/2015/10/the-consolation-of-philology Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0400 Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
by james turner
princeton, 576 pages, $35

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]]> Treasury in Heaven https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/10/treasury-in-heaven https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/10/treasury-in-heaven Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0400

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]]> Criticism’s Limits https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/01/criticisms-limits https://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/01/criticisms-limits Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0500 What was once a bold and ­disciplined endeavor to recover the truth of the Scriptures had become, argued Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger twenty-five years ago, a confused, self-defeating enterprise. Critical analysis never arrived at “hermeneutical synthesis.” Modern biblical scholars trying to illuminate the text became lost in a “jungle of contradictions.” To find a new way forward, Ratzinger argued, we must understand the roots of this project. We must carry out a “criticism of ­criticism.”

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]]> Some Assembly Required https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/03/some-assembly-required https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/03/some-assembly-required Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages
by Ian Christopher Levy
University of Notre Dame, 332 pages, $38

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