“Bradstreet’s prose statements place her within the tradition of orthodox Puritans who loved the sensible world but knew that it could not compare with its Maker” (Daly, p. 88).
Art is Whatever an Artist Can Get Away With
“The significance of the work of art often inheres not in the work itself, but in the chutzpah of the artist” (Gene Edward Veith, Postmodern Times, p. 101).
A Long River
“With this in mind, the point is to recall the reader to the ancient biblical faith, which, as it has fought faithfully down through the ages, has acquired many different names as the war progressed — Catholics, Waldensians, Huguenots, Calvinists, Methodists, Puritans. Some names have been corrupted and lost, and others made irrelevant by the …
And Why Their Modern Successors Hate It When a Man Defends Himself
“Job is quite a different question. Job is unthinkable for the Greeks and their modern successors. Imagine an unyielding Oedipus who scoffs at fate, and especially at parricide and incest; who persists in treating oracles as sinister traps for scapegoats, which is what they unquestionably are. He would have the whole world against him — …
Honestly. I Ask You.
The problem with the word conservative is that it leaves open the question of what it is you are conserving exactly. It can refer to Kremlin KGB types, Saudi Muslims, polygamous Mormons, and men like J. Gresham Machen. And a conservationist is someone who derives his ideological identity from wanting to conserve other stuff. So …
For He Is Good
One of the taunts that was brought against our Lord during His earthly ministry was that He ate with sinners. If you look around the room, and if you consider your own heart, you will observe that He is still doing this. He still eats with sinners. But as He does this, He does not …
The Signature of God
The Scriptures teach us in countless places that we are to be unsurprised when God’s faithful ones come under attack. When they tragically come under attack from fellow Christians, the charge against them is (obviously) not that they have been faithful, but rather unfaithful. This also should be no surprise. Jesus was executed for blasphemy, …
God’s Own Metaphor
“Puritan poets . . . knew that part of their work in this world was to wean their affections from the unmixed love of it. But they also knew that this world was God’s metaphor for His communicable glories and that another part of their duty was to see and utter that metaphor, to use …
Flat On Purpose
“Whereas modern artists assume that the artist, like all human beings, is a unified personality, postmodernists work from the assumption that self-identity is itself an illusion. Modernists, believing the artist is a unique individual, strive for a unique style. Postmodernists work with a collage of different and often recycled and mass-produced styles. Modernists are ‘deep,’ …
Where is the Olive Tree?
“And this is why we remember the words of Irenaeus who said, and said well, that ‘where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church.’ Where is the olive tree? The answer of Scripture is plain: Where there are olives” (Mother Kirk, p. …