George Herbert, the Church, and the Self
George Herbert was a Welsh poet and priest born in 1593 to landed aristocracy. His mother, Magdalene Herbert, was the Gertrude Stein of the 17th century English...
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Pacifism and Politics: The Tank and the Letter
Dieser Artikel auf Deutch One has to be careful not to project onto the past what is known to have occurred later, as if, in those days, people had before them two...
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The Myth of the Christ Figure
Mythological embodiment is a common allusion used in everyday English. A Herculean task is something that is difficult to accomplish, an Achilles’ Heel is a weak...
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The Spectacle of Excess: Roland Barthes, Wrestling, and the Eucharist
In 1957, during his structuralist stage, Roland Barthes published a book of collected essays titled Mythologies. Barthes’ whole project in Mythologies was to analyze...
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Murder and Moral Notions
In Towards Zero, one of Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries, Mr. Treves, a retired solicitor and specialist on criminology reflects on how we often begin murder...
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How Should We Do Apologetics?
Throughout my life I’ve been simultaneously fascinated and repulsed by apologetics. As a teenager I wanted to help people (including myself) who had sincere questions...
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