Even his best friends got tired of him sometimes. “His admirers called him ‘that terrible Thoreau,’ as if he spoke when silent, and was still present when he had departed,”…
…Caleb Smith’s “Disciplines of Attention in a Secular Age” agrees with Coviello that Thoreau’s discipline was a kind of “counterasceticism,” a practice aimed at “a personal therapeutics” (899). Walden is,…
…Institute of Theology, “Danger, Memory, and Hope: Apocalyptic Texts and Christian Ethics” Caleb Hendrickson, University of Virginia, “Expectation and Demand: Paul Tillich and the Dialectics of Hope” — **AV23-124 Religion…
…The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa. Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology…
…truth is determined by one’s faith, without reference to empirical facts. Upton Sinclair once quipped that “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends…
1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: 2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up your loins like a man, I…
Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in…
…and the Crisis of the Humanities? by Julia Reinhard Lupton, The University of California, Irvine, USA ARTICLES Justice Not Benevolence:Catholic Social Thought, Migration Theory, and the Rights of Migrants…
…humorously and conventionally attractive Kate Upton blows soapy bubbles off her dripping wet hands in slow motion as she watches young football players wash her car. CNN.com featured stories commenting…