12 May 2016
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Some friends and I have put out a new book which will be of interest to TCI readers. For Law and For Liberty: Essays on the Trans-Atlantic Legacy of Protestant Political Thought is the published collection of essays which were first presented at the 2015 Convivium Irenicum. The 2016 Convivium Irenicum...
Read more → 01 Apr 2016
Posted by Jonathan Roberts 
Kirk MacGregor, Luis de Molina, Zondervan, 2015, 288 pp. We warmly thank the publisher for providing a complimentary copy of this book for review. As with the early modern period, there is much about Luis de Molina that we really don't know. In hopes of shedding some light upon this enigmatic...
Read more → 07 Jan 2016
Posted by Simon Kennedy 
Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism (Cambridge: Belknap Press), 2014, 434 pp + viii. At the very beginning of Inventing the Individual, Larry Siedentop laments in terms that will resonate with many. Many goods of the past are lost. The western world, taken...
Read more → 04 Nov 2015
Posted by Simon Kennedy 
Mark J. Larson, Abraham Kuyper, Conservatism, and Church and State (Eugene: Wipf and Stock), 2015, 111 pp + xii. Abraham Kuyper is becoming more and more a point of conversation for politically-minded Christians. Indeed, as my TCI associate Jordan Ballor has just pointed out, we threaten...
Read more → 25 Jun 2015
Posted by Laurence O’Donnell 
A. G. Sertillanges, O.P., The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, trans. Mary Ryan (1987; repr. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press 1998). How does one acquire the treasure of knowledge?1 What duties, habits, virtues, and practices ought to order the Christian intellectual’s...
Read more → 14 Apr 2015
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
(This is not a full review. It is a brief series of summary thoughts.) Anyone who has a desire to understand the nexus of forces that conspired to create rural and small-town middle America as we know it (or as we pretend not to know it)--that part of the country, "fly-over country," alternately...
Read more → 19 Feb 2015
Posted by E.J. Hutchinson 
I recently reviewed George Demacopoulos' The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity (2013), part of the "Divinations" series published by University of Pennsylvania Press, for Classical Journal Online, and thought it may be of interest to some of our readers....
Read more → 19 Jan 2015
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Kyle Williams, PhD student at Rutgers, has written a fascinating book review of Chris Walsh's Cowardice: A Brief History over at Boston Review. As Mr. Williams explains, the concept of cowardice has an rich history in Western literature and thought, starting at least with the Bible, holding a significant...
Read more → 19 Nov 2014
Posted by Ruben Alvarado 
Here follows a translation of the first paragraphs of the introduction to Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer's Unbelief and Revolution. Harry van Dyke's otherwise excellent translation truncates this part, a bad move on his part as this passage sets the stage for everything that follows, and lays out the importance...
Read more → 18 Nov 2014
Posted by Steven Wedgeworth 
Allan C. Carlson The Natural Family Where It Belongs: New Agrarian Essays Transaction Publishers, 2014 Allan Carlson is a writer we interact with often at TCI. We have reviewed his Third Ways here and have tried to summarize his overall project here. Earlier this year we were sent a review...
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