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“The Spirit of God upon the Face of the Waters”: Calvin and the Catholicity of Truth


 19 Nov 2019
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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In a puzzling string of assertions comprising part of a recent online article, the claim was made that the principle that “all truth is God’s truth” is “distinctively Dutch Reformed.” (Curiously,...

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Calvin’s Socratic Sanctification


 19 Aug 2019
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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Plato, in the Phaedo, had Socrates claim that philosophy was “practice for dying and death.” It was a sentiment that was to exercise great influence down through the centuries, all the way to Heidegger’s...

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Neoplatonist to the End? Augustine’s Last Days


 18 Feb 2019
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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Augustine is well known for the degree to which he was influenced by Neoplatonism in the first phase of his career. (It is sometimes assumed--incorrectly--that this makes his early works insufficiently...

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Male-Only Ordination is Natural: Why the Church is a Model of Reality


 16 Jan 2019
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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One of the dangers inherent in "complementarianism" is the perception that ordination to ecclesiastical office is a matter of semi-arbitrary positive law and private zones of jurisdiction, that male leadership...

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Melanchthon’s Aristotle: Civic Virtue


 05 Dec 2018
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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Philip Melanchthon is nothing if not consistent in the way in which he handles the appropriation of classical, and particularly Aristotelian, thinking about virtue for the benefit of Christians (a topic...

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Obviously Protestants Ruin Poetry


 02 Oct 2018
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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The folks over at Sententiae Antiquae recently posted a passage worth reading from a letter of Benjamin Rush to Ashbel Green from 1807. Therein Rush says: No more Latin should be learned in these schools...

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What is Effeminacy?


 15 Jul 2018
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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So let's talk about effeminacy. This came up as final point of criticism in my Mere Orthodoxy critique of the gay Christianity of Revoice and Spiritual Friendship. Now, I knew that "going there" would...

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Eros Rescued by Agape: Augustine, Denis De Rougemont, and the Sanctification of Passion


 09 Jul 2018
 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth
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As we continue our thoughts on gay Christianity and “spiritual friendship,” we need to take an important detour. My original plan to was to move from concupiscence to the topic of effeminacy, but as I worked...

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“Especially the Platonists”: Plato Owning Aristotle in Late Antiquity


 07 May 2018
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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The following passage is so over-quoted that I hesitate to quote it again (I discuss the general idea in an essay in this book), but I'm going to do it anyway to make just one tiny little point. That point...

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The Speculative Calvin


 06 Mar 2018
 Posted by E.J. Hutchinson
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For good reason, one might find John Calvin referred to as an "anti-speculative" theologian. But as with so many other monikers applied to Protestant theologians (e.g. "anti-scholastic"), one must take...

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