Death on April Fool’s Day
Some thoughts on “Confessions of an Opium-Eater,” death, and living history.
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Looking out onto the world
If Father and Son (1907) is a “document,” a “record” of fact, and a “diagnosis” of a cultural moment—which is how the poet and critic Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) puts it at the outset of his auto/biography—that is not because of its pretensions to scientific objectivity, its implied invocation of a naturalist’s standard of normalcy, or
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A sudden disintegration
A review of “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America” (2017), by Frances Fitzgerald.
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Unaffected by history?
A review of “Why Study the Past?” by Rowan Williams.
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The history that lies between
A review of “The Moral Vision of the New Testament” by Richard Hays.
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The search after truth: an Enlightenment episode
An historical essay on how Hugo Grotius helped the enlightenment reform Christian apologetics.
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Inventing the virtuous atheist: an Enlightenment episode
An historical essay on how Plutarch helped the enlightenment invent the virtuous atheist.
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The evangelical imagination
A review of “Apostles of Reason” by Molly Worthen.
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Augustine’s mantle
A review of “Confessing History” edited by John Fea et al.
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Framing Christian apologetics
A review of two new books on Christian apologetics.
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