A Campgate of the Mind: Roman Propaganda and Trump’s America
The classicist Gavin Richardson looks at walls in late Roman propaganda and what they have to tell us in the Age of Trump.
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The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Review of Defending Constantine
The tale of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” turns on the question of how to see the emperor: is he clothed in garments befitting someone of his noble station, or is he parading in nothing more than his birthday suit, exposed as vain and conceited? Likewise, Peter Leithart’s Defending Constantine turns on the question of how […]
Screwing with Idols: A Targum (Romans 1:16-32)
In this targum of Romans 1:16-32, Brian J. Walsh offers a creative and contemporary interpretation of a portion of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Christian community in Rome.
Love and Hope in Benedict XVI’s Vision for Human Development
Read within the context of his first two encyclicals, DEUS CARITAS EST and SPE SALVI, Pope Benedict XVI’s third encyclical, CARITAS IN VERITATE, presents a unified philosophical and theological vision that grounds authentic human development in the fundamental Christian virtues of hope and love.
Whose Rome? Which Catholicism? A Review of Beckwith’s Return to Rome
A critical review by James K. A. Smith of Francis Beckwith’s RETURN TO ROME.
ROMA DURA
Per mia figlia chi Roma mi mostrò ‘ It’s a strange courage you give me…’ All space is sacred space and all matter sacred matter though here in this hard city dirty with the grime of empire where what triumphs, Io triumphe, and what horrors have not been seen, space and matter appear more sacred, indeed, eternale. […]