Ever since Augustine’s The City of God Western political thought has kept some kind of separation – in lesser or greater degrees – between heavenly politics and earthly politics. Oliver O’Donovan clarifies this truth when he writes that “the opposition…
On Saturday, July 13th, the 45th President and republican nominee, Donald Trump, was struck by an assassin’s bullet that grazed his ear during a rally in Butler, PA. This shocking attack, the first of its kind in 40 years, has…
John Milbank, Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 298 pages. £24.99 What if Duns Scotus had never written theology? According to John Milbank, Christendom would have been spared much of…
John Milbank, Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 298 pages. £24.99 What if Duns Scotus had never written theology? According to John Milbank, Christendom would have been spared much of…
In Part 1 of this series I observed that southern Presbyterian defenders of segregation emphasized the Old Testament as the authority for biblical norms regarding race over against the more New Testament oriented arguments of their opponents in the civil…
In Part 1 of this series I observed that southern Presbyterian defenders of segregation emphasized the Old Testament as the authority for biblical norms regarding race over against the more New Testament oriented arguments of their opponents in the civil…
