Global Jesus versus National Jesus: The Political Hermeneutics of Resurrection [Pt. II]
[Part I was published Monday] I N. T. Wright on Paul’s Resurrection Theology: Global or National? Nicholas Thomas Wright, the former Anglican bishop of Durham,…
Augustine of Hippo
Global Jesus versus National Jesus: The Political Hermeneutics of Resurrection [Pt. I]
I Introduction Biblical interpretation is, if not the only, certainly the core task of theological hermeneutics. Unfortunately, religious conflict and biblical interpretation have always been…
Metanarrative Collapse? Whether the Christian Cosmology Invented by St. Augustine of Hippo Has Stood the Test of Time [Pt. II]
[See Part I of this essay here] IV Augustine’s Hellenistic Hermeneutic Augustine’s interpretation of the Biblical metanarrative portrays both the creation and the end of…
Metanarrative Collapse? Whether the Christian Cosmology Invented by St. Augustine of Hippo Has Stood the Test of Time [Pt. I]
I Introduction From its beginnings in the first century A.D. Christianity anchored its cosmology in the Bible. But what is the Bible? As a book…
René Girard – Imitation and Life Without God
In preparation for teaching a literature course in the 1950s, René Girard reread some of the classic novels. In the process he realized that the…
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order [Part I]
I Introduction The Diadochic Kingdoms No area of Western history is quite as recondite as that of the Diadochic empires, the successor-kingdoms that sprang up…
A Reflection on Joseph Pearce’s “A Christian Response to Europe’s Crisis”
Joseph Pearce recently had a provocative article published in the UK’s Catholic Herald, titled “A Christian Response to Europe’s Crisis.”1 Some might not know who…
2016 Symposium – Alain de Benoist
Irreplaceable Communities Communities, whether they are ancient or recent, of an ethno-cultural, linguistic, religious, sexual nature or other, are natural dimensions of membership. No…
2016 Symposium – Alain de Benoist
Irremplaçables Communautés Les communautés, qu’elles soient anciennes ou récentes, de nature ethno-culturelle, linguistique, religieuse, sexuelle ou autre, sont des dimensions naturelles d’appartenance. Aucun individu ne…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part II: Existentialism
I. Introduction If we’re going to tackle the Frankfurt School, we ought to understand their ideas. In order to understand their ideas, we have to…