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‘Whole and Entire’: Our Lenten Conversion

Lent is among the least understood, most misappropriated seasons of the liturgical year, which is really saying something when you consider what’s become of...

The Tears and the Embrace of Ecclesia Mater

Eusebius of Caesarea is well known for his highly optimistic appraisal of the Roman Empire’s turn — first, in toleration, then, in support —...

Ranking the Theologians

When I get a rare moment of inactivity and my thoughts can wander, I often come back to the question of what makes a...

Henri de Lubac: Mystical Theologian

This essay is excerpted from chapter three of Salvation in Henri de Lubac: Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross, which...

‘Blood of Christ, Inebriate Me’

By Mac Stewart  When I was a kid, I wasn’t so crazy about the date of my birth: April 29. It was toward the end...

On Loving God

By Kate Marsh Before we got married, I remember asking Graham what he meant when he said that he loved me. Of course, I was...

The Ordeal of Hope: Practicing a Virtue Under Unpromising Conditions

By Elizabeth Anderson  The early 21st century presents many of us with a crisis of hope much more than a crisis of faith. There are...

Density, Clarity, and Handing on the Faith

Tradition and Apocalypse  An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief By David Bentley Hart. Baker Academic. pp. 208 $24.99 Review by Cole Hartin One of the chief...

Signs, Things, and the Mediation of the Ineffable:

Sacramental Ecclesiology in Book I of Saint Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana Every year The Living Church's student essay contest draws several excellent submissions. The first-place essay...

A Geography of Two Cities: Augustine’s Hippo Regius

By Edward L. Smither In St. Augustine’s magisterial work, The City of God, he sought to make sense of the believer’s sojourn in a fallen...

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