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,…
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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…
Making Angelcynns: How Alfred the Great Responded to the Viking Invasions
This is the first of two essays that formed the basis of a presentation given to the Sydney Traditionalist Forum on 15 September 2018 by…
The Red Badge of Remembrance
At this year’s February Symposium, Mr. M. W. Davis issued a rousing call for Traditionalist men and women to return to traditional, national dress as…
2017 Symposium – Thomas F. Bertonneau
Identity: The Future of a Paradox When Publius Virgilius Maro, more familiarly Virgil, accepted the commission from Augustus, formerly Gaius Octavius, to create an…
Political Correctness and the Death of Education – Requiem for a Dream
In The One By Whom Scandal Comes (2014) René Girard writes: “Every culture takes a dim view of anyone who does not unconditionally prefer the native…
2016 Symposium – Michael Tung
A World Turned Upside Down: Finding True North in the Last Hour In this essay I will attempt to sketch out the Traditionalist view of…
2016 Symposium – James Kalb
Liberalism as a Religion The strange and increasingly nonfunctional condition of Western political and social life cannot easily be changed, because its causes are quite…