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Theological Fitness: Why We Need a Fighting Faith is a call by blogger and podcaster Aimee Byrd for all Christians to be theologians. Here is a link to the book…

Series Index The final section of Philosophical Investigations brings the language-game approach to questions of ethics, and once again, the real benefit of reading and thinking about what Wittgenstein is…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia Hypocrites and Church-Thieves Living seven hundred years after Dante’s poetic career makes the final stretch of Inferno a particular philosophical challenge, largely because…

Series Index Philosophical Investigations, as I read it, doesn’t have a thesis so much as it explores both the limits of stating theses and the limits of denying the need…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia The Democratization of American Sins One popular topic for invention among youth-group kids in the mid-nineties (and I was one for a spell)…

There are winners and losers every time intellectual capital changes hands. But the upside of that process is that there are always figures from the past who are ready to…

Series Index Philosophical Investigations was the reading and discussion matter for a group of students and faculty at Emmanuel College during the 2014-15 school year, under the auspices of the Emmanuel…

Series Index It’s been a few years since I wrote reflections on my summer reading on Dante, and back then I used to do three posts each summer, one on…

Series Index In case you’re just tuning in, or in case you’ve forgotten what a Wittgenstein Wednesday is, some faculty and students got together every couple weeks during the 2014-15…

The Christian Humanists respond to listener emails. [0:00] An announcement from David Grubbs! [5:05] Why Christian Existentialism? [9:12] Kierkegaard and Christendom [17:41] John McAdams and academic freedom [27:09] More holy…

Waiting for the Conservative John Stewart The Progressive Death of Comedy When I say that I find both twenty-first-century American political factions unpalatable, please don’t take me to mean that…

Series Index A few months passed between installments seven and eight of this series, so for the sake of those who might come across this later, I’ll just say that…

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In its historical particularity tragedy had its first great moment in ancient Athens, when didaskaloi, educators, would compete for civic recognition staging increasingly elaborate exchanges of dramatic speeches.  And once…

There’s a story that everyone knows about the doctrine of the Trinity: there was this teacher in first-century Judea, Jesus of Nazareth, who preached the coming kingdom of God and…