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Tonight I enjoyed some of the best free Shakespeare I've ever seen, and one of the most difficult plays to pull of well, too. It's long,
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In 1954, C.S. Lewis was asked by the Milton Society of America to comment on his own life’s work. In his statement, Lewis insists that the explanation for
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G.K. Chesterton is best known for his apologetic works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. But the work that earned him some of the highest praise was Saint Thomas Aquinas:
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I have always thought that every academic--or wannabe, such as myself--ought have one or two hypotheses that are held very loosely, are somewhat defensible but impossible to prove,
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Adam Gopnik's piece about G.K. Chesterton in the New Yorker continues to stir up dissenting opinions. The latest comes from one of my favorite contemporary conservatives, Ross
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Occasionally I come across a book review so scathing that it makes me laugh, cringe, repent for laughing (in that order) and then pray that I am never the recipient
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Shakespeare's religious orientation and beliefs are an endless source of speculation and bickering among those who take an interest in the Bard. And for good reason: because Shakespeare&
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While offering his own take on the differences between the respective literary imaginations of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Martin Cothran offered this substantial and skillful critique
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Via Rod Dreher comes this piece by Fr. Dwight Longenecker, who writes: Tolkien disliked allegory so intensely because he felt it was too didactic. It leaves no possibility that any
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I am a big fan of both G.K. Chesterton and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. (You can read some of my thoughts about the latter here.
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Esolen’s Ironies of Faith hangs upon the premise that the Christian understands irony differently than his secular neighbor. Esolen writes: Contemporary literary theorists have attempted to distill the essence
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One of the more useful aspects of Anthony Esolen’s Ironies of Faith (see my review here) is that his exploration of Christian literature highlights the disparity between their worldview