by Joshua Shaw In another post we will look at the critical methods of these men (as well as others – Schlatter, Hodge, Bavinck, Lightfoot, etc.) in a more direct way; for now we consider it from the perspective of the last post – the relationship of man to Creation, the relationship of this world… Read More “Christianity Shrinks From No Test”: Westcott and Hort on Biblical Criticism (2)
“The end,” said Origen, “is always like the beginning.” St. Paul said it this way, “in Him and through Him and to Him are all things.” In Matthew Gaetano’s last post he quoted Francis Oakley’s comment on the dissonance between the “God of the philosophers” and the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” Following “the… Read More Broadening the Trail Blazed by Philo
by Matthew Gaetano Joshua Shaw has been presenting Eusebius’s rich and complex polemic against paganism alongside his dialogue with Platonism. He has illuminated the reasons for the contrast between Eusebius’s approach and C. S. Lewis’s way of defending Christianity. Like many defenses of the Christian religion in the Renaissance and beyond (and in Late Antiquity… Read More The Pagans and the Atheists in C. S. Lewis and Herman Bavinck
by Joshua Shaw In the beginning of Pascal’s Pensées, Part I, Chapter I (online here), there is the famous distinction between those subjects whose material is contained entirely in books, and so dependent entirely upon authority, and those subjects whose material (the corporeal world) is dependent upon sense perception (i.e., experience) and reason (paraphrasing the… Read More Pascal and Bavinck on Science and Theology
by Clare McGrath-Merkle, OCDS, DPhil Editorial Note: Clare McGrath-Merkle, OCDS is a graduate of Notre Dame of Maryland University (B.A.), St. John’s College, Annapolis (M.A.), Washington Theological Union (M.T.S., with a certificate in Carmelite Studies), The Catholic University of America School of Theology and Religious Studies (A.B.D., spirituality studies), and the University of Augsburg, Germany… Read More Fallen Failsafes and a Revolutionary Modern Priesthood
by Andrew Kuiper 1. Introduction Wilken nowhere claims to give an exhaustive historical survey of figures relevant to his subject. Still, after discussions of Alcuin and Gregory VII, the book suffers a discomfiting abridgement. Peter Olivi and Bartolomé de Las Casas both receive a brief treatment, but for the most part the reader is, at… Read More Ramon Llull and Religious Dialogue
by Andrew Kuiper Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a series on religious freedom. See Kuiper’s previous post at TRF on a related topic here. Robert Louis Wilken’s most recent work Liberty in the Things of God sketches an outline of the origin and development of religious freedom in Christian thought. Though Wilken… Read More Review: Robert Louis Wilken’s Liberty in the Things of God
This is Steven Wedgeworth’s response to Thomas Pink’s concluding remarks. It is the final essay in a four-part debate between Thomas Pink and Steven Wedgeworth on the historical and conceptual coherence of Dignitatis Humanae, and thereby the traditional Catholic teachings on church and state. The previous installments are: Pink: Tyranny, Contradiction or Continuity: A Reformed-Catholic… Read More Concluding Thoughts on Dignitatis Humanae
This is Thomas Pink’s concluding argument in a series of exchanges on Dignitatis Humanae. His kick-off essay can be found here (along with an introduction to the overall debate), with a response essay here from Steven Wedgeworth. Next week, Wedgeworth will make his final arguments. I have presented a Leonine interpretation of Dignitatis Humanae – an account that… Read More Dignitatis Humanae – A Leonine Balancing Act
This is part II in a debate between Thomas Pink and Steven Wedgeworth (Roman Catholic and Reformed, respectively) on Dignitatis Humanae and Catholic teaching on religious liberty and coercion. Part I may be found here, along with a short introduction and context for the debate. Steven Wedgeworth – Christ Church in Lakeland, Director for the Davenant Trust Professor… Read More Design by Committee: the Challenge of Reading Dignitatis Humanae Aright