By Dr. Emily E. Stelzer I once participated in a panel on John Milton’s theology where a majority of those in the audience were non-specialists and Southern Baptists. In the question-and-answer portion of the event, someone from the …
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A Classic Is a Story that Might Save Us: Meditations on the Christian Gospel and Plato’s Story of Er
By Dr. Gary Hartenburg 1. At the end of Plato’s Republic, Socrates recounts for his friend, Glaucon, a story he once heard about a man named Er who fell in battle and was laid on a pyre, but after …
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Rethinking the Reformation Reliance upon the Middle Ages
By Dr. David J. Davis On August 29, 1518, a 21-year-old Philip Melanchthon gave his inaugural address at the University of Wittenberg. Only four days into his job as professor of Greek, Melanchthon energized the audience with a …
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Paul and the Classical World of His Time
By Dr. Craig A. Evans That Paul, the “apostle to the Gentiles,” frequently engaged the classical world of his time should come as no surprise at all. The Christian Church of the early centuries simply could not avoid …
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Why Athens And Jerusalem Must Meet
By Dr. Louis Markos I am proud to teach at a university that is committed to building on the classics and to bringing together the Greco-Roman legacy of Athens and the Judeo-Christian faith of Jerusalem. What that means …
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Teaching the Classics: Introduction from Editor Dr. Jeffery Green
By Dr. Jeffery Green It is my pleasure to introduce to you the theme for our Spring and Summer 2018 edition of The City. We will be exploring Christianity and the Classics for the next several months. The …
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Artistic Foundations for New Mediums: How Poetry Inspires Transcendent Cinema
By Joshua Sikora One of the joys of teaching film at a university is the opportunity to explore the cinematic medium through the lens of other art forms. Working alongside painters, sculptors, composers, and poets, I am often …
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The Importance Of ‘Social Capital’ And The Fate Of The American Family
By Timothy S. Goeglein “How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!” -Dr. Samuel Johnson Earlier this year, I was invited to one of Washington’s premiere think tanks …
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What is sentimental art and why is it bad for you?
by Matthew Boyleston, PhD One of the most common objections my students raise is a vigorous disagreement to my claim that art is not exclusively a subjective experience: beauty does not actually reside in the eye of the …
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The Necessity of Sovereign Laws
by John Tyler, JD, PhD Two troubling trends have radically transformed American jurisprudence since the 1950s. The first is the separation of law from morality, which produces unjust laws. The second is judicial activism, which destroys liberty. This …