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Smashing the Kingdom of Jove

Charles Norris Cochrane’s summary of Augustine’s critique: In misapprehending God’s kingdom, man misappropriates power

"[T]he error of Classicism may be summarily described as a failure to identify the true source of power and, therewith, its true character and conditions."

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Dharmaśāstras: The Reordering of the World, One More Time

The emergence of the Hindu Dharmaśāstra texts in India as polemical rhetoric

To say, as the Dharmaśāstras do, that some people know dharma is to also say that others do not. There is, then, not only a stated purpose to the Dharmaśāstras, but one that is set in a telling awareness of disagreement and debate.

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Reflections (& Refractions)

Life’s Rhythms & the Telling of Time

Contemplating affection for eternity in the passing of days

Time, then, becomes something more to us than the measured span of what we do. There is also the frightening contemplation of what is not done: tasks uncompleted, people unvisited, God’s kindness unacknowledged.

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Commentary & Exposition

- 1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Conceiving a Fiction

Paul asks his readers to imagine the circumstances were the Christian account actually mistaken

As others have remarked before, this is an extraordinary argument. Paul, in fact, asks his reader to conceive of the resurrection’s fact as if it were a fiction. This is an uncommon kind of argument, for it gives up the ground upon which so much rhetoric is finally made to depend—the strong, emotional sentiments that are sometimes made to stand in the absence (or refusal) of facts.

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