27 Mar 2013
Posted by Peter Escalante 
“Lousy bastard,” “monster,” and “abysmal scum” … a few of Ayn Rand’s judgments on C. S. Lewis for his arguments in The Abolition of Man. Somewhat more vituperative than the judgment of Dr Lewis’ Master by Rand’s master Mises, but proceeding from the same principles. And yet Mises...
Read more → 07 Feb 2013
Posted by Peter Escalante Dr Laurence O'Donnell offers an enlightening comparison here.
Read more → 19 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth Carl Trueman has a very helpful post connecting the theological dots related to the historicity of Adam and to the way in which Evangelicals read the opening chapters of Genesis. His point is that biblical doctrine is always connected and interrelated with itself, with certain basic doctrines supporting...
Read more → 17 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth Derek Wilson, writing about the context just prior to the publication of the King James Bible, illuminates the strikingly bad conditions of learning and reading among the 16th-century English clergy: Clergy considered themselves, and were considered by their flocks, to be primarily performers of rituals...
Read more → 16 Jan 2013
Posted by Peter Escalante Mr Littlejohn, in this trenchant essay, very decisively turns off the dry ice machine and strobes at the ecclesiastical utopian party, and turns the regular lights on. Now, once they have recovered from Mr Littlejohn's harshing of their mellow, said partygoers must make up their mind as to what exactly...
Read more → 15 Jan 2013
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth Hendrik van Loon was one of those great writers of an earlier age who could make a reference book read like a great novel. I read his Geography for fun. While his book on the history of America is weighed down a bit by the classical liberal tone of Gibbon and co., it is still chock full of entertaining...
Read more → 25 Dec 2012
Posted by Peter Escalante As the old carol proclaims: Heaven and earth in little space; res miranda. Wondrous indeed, but not an end in itself; as another carol says, the end of it was to save us all from Satan’s power, when we had gone astray and finally, as the famous hymn declares, God and sinners, reconciled. A reason once...
Read more → 05 Dec 2012
Posted by Peter Escalante One could elaborate the details, and add a thing or two, but this analysis of the Milbank school, posted over at Inhabitatio Dei, says exactly what needs to be said- and something which we, incidentally, have been saying too for some time now. As Mr McCarracher notes, the Milbank school seems incapable...
Read more → 09 Nov 2012
Posted by Peter Escalante Our friend Mr Alastair Roberts, of the University of Durham, offers a characteristically acute and judicious overview of American civic affairs in a guest post over at Mere Orthodoxy.
Read more → 24 Apr 2012
Posted by Peter Escalante Our friend Keith Brooks at City of God excerpts here a useful reflection from Kevin Vanhoozer on the problems of communitarian theology and its promotion of eisegesis from fallacy to the status of postmodern revelation.
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