Accusations of anti-Judaism are flying in Germany. In a 2013 essay, “Die Kirche und das Alte Testament” (The Church and the Old Testament), Notger Slenczka, a Protestant theologian at the Humboldt University of Berlin, argued that the Old Testament “should not have canonical validity in the . . . . Continue Reading »
You tell me you are thinking, my dear Stephen, of medicine as a career, but you wonder whether you have the ability or the temperament for it. You say that you have wanted to be a doctor ever since your family practitioner visited you at home as a child when you had severe tonsillitis. He seemed a . . . . Continue Reading »
Origen: On First Principles edited and translated by john behr oxford, 800 pages, $200 In its eleventh canon, the Second Council of Constantinople (553) anathematized Arius, Eunomius, Macedonius, Apollinaris, Nestorius, and Origen, along with their impious writings. Adding Origen’s . . . . Continue Reading »
At present there is a great deal of handwringing about civility. On campus, students in screaming packs set upon speakers or professors who have said things that the earnest young have been taught to find offensive. Other students are encouraged by university administrators to act as spies, handing . . . . Continue Reading »
The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentary by gabriel said reynolds yale, 1032 pages, $40 This book is misleadingly named. The blame, if blame there be, rests with the stingy conventions of contemporary publishing. The work deserves one of those splendidly prolix seventeenth-century . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro Rege: Living Under Christ’s Kingship Vol. 1: The Exalted Nature of Christ’s Kingship Vol. 2: The Kingship of Christ in its Operation by abraham kuyper edited by john kok and nelson d. kloosterman translated by albert gootjes lexham, 1072 pages, $99.98 Dismissed from the office of prime . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by diarmaid macculloch viking, 752 pages, $40 They said it could not be done. At least Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whose memory his former doctoral student has dedicated this book, said it could not be done. According to him, as Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us, . . . . Continue Reading »
We need a new understanding of what is at stake. Continue Reading »
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by john w. o’malley belknap, 320 pages, $24.95 In 1860 Pope Pius IX lost the papal states, which had been held by his predecessors for a thousand years. Four years later he issued the Syllabus of Errors. The eightieth and . . . . Continue Reading »
A review of Jonathan Leaf's Pushkin: A Life Played Out. Continue Reading »
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