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Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible

Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the Bible is a subject of neglect in mainstream Shakespeare scholarship.  This is surprising, inasmuch as the relevant data has been compiled by a coterie of Shakespeare scholars, most notably Naseeb Shaheen in his book Biblical References…

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Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible

Shakespeare’s indebtedness to the Bible is a subject of neglect in mainstream Shakespeare scholarship.  This is surprising, inasmuch as the relevant data has been compiled by a coterie of Shakespeare scholars, most notably Naseeb Shaheen in his book Biblical References…

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Marxing your card, Lig!

Is Trueman a Marxist?  Well, as that nice, loyal Mr Lieberman might say, `That’s a good question!’  And, as it now appears that it is not seeing class struggle but rather belief in graduated income tax that defines a Marxist,…

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Marxing your card, Lig!

Is Trueman a Marxist?  Well, as that nice, loyal Mr Lieberman might say, `That’s a good question!’  And, as it now appears that it is not seeing class struggle but rather belief in graduated income tax that defines a Marxist,…

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Rallying the Really Human Things

A friend of mine, some five years ago now, introduced me to Vigen Guroian when he suggested I read Inheriting Paradise (Eerdmans, 1999), a short but immensely satisfying meditation on the relationship of theology to gardening. Earlier this year, I…

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Ferret Breeding on Watership Down

Teaching history is probably one of the more depressing activities in which one can engage in the current climate. At an academic level, the discipline has been in self-destruct mode for some time, losing itself in a morass of hyperspecialised…

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Flip-Flops in the House of God

In an article in the Chicago Tribune this week, Jodi Cohen and Maegan Carberry discussed the case of Kate Darmody, a winning member of the National Championship Women’s Lacrosse team from Northwestern University. She, along with her fellow players had…

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Grace Psalm

Nearly a decade ago now, Lisa and I went to visit an art exhibit at a private gallery on Manhattan. I had recently become acquainted with the Japanese-American artist Makoto Fujimura, and I wanted to see his work for myself.…

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Total Truth

I do not have the space in this brief review to give a summary of the content of the whole of this remarkable book; rather I will mention just a couple of highlights. Last year I had the students in…

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Total Truth

This is a very difficult review to write. The difficulty first became apparent to me several months ago when I realized that I was enormously behind my intended deadline of October, 2005. Due to a variety of circumstances, I have…