The Calvinist International
This is for the philistines, to help you get in touch with your inner non-philistine and slay the Goliath within you. Dare to be a David! Name-checking one’s literary influences has a long pedigree. One might mention Ennius’ Pythagorean dream in which the ghost of Homer appeared to him and told him that his soul […]
Classically speaking, there are some truths about God that can be known, or known partially, or grasped, or grasped partially, by reasoned reflection on general revelation. These truths are usually grouped under the domain of natural theology: for example, that there is only one God (monotheism), that he is not a composite being (divine simplicity), […]
In Canto 7 of the Inferno, Dante vividly imagines the fate of those given over to wrath and sullenness in their earthly lives. The wrathful in the end turn their whole bodies into weapons, externalizing, as it were, the rage they had always had within. The sullen, who would not enjoy God’s good gifts, are buried […]
Dr Matthew Milliner offers some interesting reflections here on the increasing currency of visual exegesis, by which he seems to mean pictorial art derivative from Biblical themes. Frequenters of this forum will know that one of our special concerns is clarity of expression and would therefore be able to predict that we would want to […]