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Christian Humanist Profiles 284: Readings in Romans (opens the original)
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I always think I know what Romans is about, and then I reread Romans. I don’t fault the Reformed for fixating on the formulas that confirm Calvin, and I don’t blame Lutherans for taking “law” as consistently a term of abuse when it seems more fluid to my eyes, but I do wonder at the […]
Christian Humanist Profiles 283: Proclamation Beyond the Pulpit (opens the original)
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In the sixteenth century, Desiderius Erasmus revolutionized homiletics by bringing the insights of Ciceronian and later humanist rhetoric to bear on preaching, and historians of Protestant and Catholic traditions in the following centuries agree that worship gatherings transformed radically with that crossover. Not long after, Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and others […]
Christian Humanist Profiles 282: Medieval Spirituality (opens the original)
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Talk to an American Protestant about her spiritual life, and you’re as likely as not to hear about reading a printed Bible, usually in solitude, for the sake of resisting the distractions that an image- and video-saturated world. There’s nothing inherently bad about any part of that picture–certainly I’ve meditated on the Psalms in a […]
Christian Humanist Profiles 281: Shakespeare’s Scholars (opens the original)
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For Americans, in the twenty-first century, the first association between Shakespeare and schools is obvious: we read Shakespeare in school. Whether we’re thinking of the ubiquitous Romeo and Juliet unit in ninth grade, later high-school tragedies, or perhaps even a play or two in college, in our moment the Bard shows up in school, and […]
Christian Humanist Profiles 280: The Kantian Religion (opens the original)
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I first learned about Pierre Hadot in a John Milbank book, and ever since I’ve read everything of his that I could get my hands on. Hadot’s revolutionary power resides not in a particular claim or argument but in a method: he investigates Plato and the Stoics and eventually even Wittgenstein as shapers of lives, […]
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