What’s the Bible For?

by Peter J. Leithart

Whether or not Augustine was right to say the Spirit is “love” and “gift” depends on what we think the Bible is for. Continue Reading »

22 Apr 2014

Latin, Elite and Vulgar

by Peter J. Leithart

J.N. Adams takes up a classic question about the history of Latin in his Social Variation and the Latin Language: How did the Romance languages emerge from Latin?It’s been thought that the Romance languages came from changes in Latin pronunciation and grammar at the lower levels of . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Apr 2014

Augustinian Semiotics

by Peter J. Leithart

In a 1988 article in the Journal of Literature and Theology (2:1), Milbank sketches the contours of a “theology without substance.” Along the way, he offers a critique of Augustine’s signum-res distinction and the implied metaphysics.On the one hand, Augustine pours some of . . . . Continue Reading »

25 Mar 2014

Augustine on the Big Screen: RESTLESS HEART

by Carl Scott

Ignatius Press has been for some time promoting this new film based on the life of St. Augustine. I saw it the other night at one of the public showings that Christian groups are encouraged to sponsor, and while the rest of the largely church-going and Catholic-student-group audience seemed . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Oct 2012

Charles Portis’s Norwood: Audiobook Road-Trip Bliss

by Carl Scott

As Thanksgiving approaches, many of you will be Homeward Bound and back again, on turnpikes or through airports, and you are starting to ask that key question: what recorded books ought I to obtain for the journey? Well, for the certifiably insane geniuses and Christian masochists, who can navigate . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Nov 2011

Justin Martyr: Not Just Dead, Just Not Augustine

by John Mark Reynolds

This great twentieth-century scholar loved Plato, wrote Christian apologetics, and was a first-rate scholar with secular publications still in print. Sadly, A. E. Taylor was not C. S. Lewis, lived about the same time, and is little read by anyone but specialists while Lewis continues to drive whole . . . . Continue Reading »

24 Sep 2010

“Our Hearts Are Restless . . .”

by Gene Fant

“Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.” (Augustine, Confessions (Book 1)The longing of our hearts for something more, something beyond ourselves is powerful. Intuitively, we know that we need something to complete our broken hearts, . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Dec 2009

Faith, hope and love: virtues or functions?

by David T. Koyzis

This term I have been teaching Ancient & Mediaeval Political Theory, a course that is crosslisted between the philosophy and political science departments at Redeemer. Yesterday we heard two fine student presentations on Thomas Aquinas’ writings on the virtues (Summa Theologica Ia-IIae, qq. . . . . Continue Reading »

2 Dec 2009

The Population of Hell

by Avery Cardinal Dulles

Sometimes the complaint is heard that no one preaches about hell any longer. The subject of hell, if not attractive, is at least fascinating, as any reader of Dante’s Inferno or Milton’s Paradise Lost can testify. Equally fascinating, and decidedly more pressing, is the question of how many of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2003