William H. Sheldon’s Psychology and the Promethean Will: Some Historiographic Observations
October 29, 2009
By: Stephen Gatlin
That an oversized reprint of William H. Sheldon’s Psychology and the Promethean Will (1936) should re-surface in this century is both felicitous and perturbing: the former because Sheldon was one of the shrewdest American psychologists of the twentieth century; the latter because his new publisher, Kessinger, deals in, as their advertising trumpets, “rare mystical reprints”. It is not surprising on one level that any effort on the part of a psychologist and medical doctor to be genuinely holistic—to integrate, in this instance, religion, medicine, and psychology after the fashion of William James—should meet with such a fate.
The Threefold Witness of the Church
October 29, 2009
The Catholic Peter, the Orthodox John, and the Protestant Paul
By: Louis Markos
As an Evangelical Protestant who came to know Christ in the Greek Orthodox Church, as a non-denominational “product” of the para-church movement, and as an avid supporter of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, I have always harbored mixed feelings about the divided state of the Body of Christ.… Read more
Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law: Their Significance in Western Thought
October 29, 2009
By: Robert P. George
The idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are central to the Western tradition of thought about public (or “political”) order.1 St. Thomas Aquinas went so far as to declare that “it belongs to the very notion of a people [ad rationem populi] that the people’s dealings with each other be regulated… Read more
Notches
October 29, 2009
Ryan McNally
There are empty ways to count success.
My parents sexed so I could be…
Fear of Flying
October 29, 2009
By: Adrienne Su
They’re sure of it: by hugging the ground
they will avert the day it swallows them.
Following the Ancients
October 29, 2009
Pamela Pignataro
The world did not start when you were born, so let the paths of the ancients lead you through your life.
Ode to a Cemetery on All Souls Day
October 29, 2009
Kenneth DiMaggio
Halloween
Was for the rest
of America…
The Sleep of the Innocent
October 29, 2009
By: Sam Pierstorff
Since our infant son first slept
with arms poised as if a touchdown
had been scored, my wife and I
now brood over every new pose:
claws out like a pouncing tiger—
funeral arms overlapping his chest—
the gravitational mystery of tiny forearms
extended like a mummy’s—
so unlike
Deconstructing Some Convoluted Christology
October 29, 2009
By: Jonathan David Price
Jesus Ascended
Gerrit Scott Dawson.
P&R Publishing, 2004.
(paperback) 192pp.
What starts as ostensible Christology in Dawson’s Jesus Ascended quickly reveals itself to be Pneumatology, the study of the Holy Spirit, in disguise. In the forward to the book, we learn that Christ sends down “his own personal presence in the Holy Spirit” (Dawson… Read more
Israel as a Bumblebee
October 29, 2009
By: Herbert London
It has been demonstrated that the body of the bumblebee is too heavy to be sustained by its wings. From an aerodynamic standpoint the bumblebee shouldn’t fly. Yet it does.
In many ways the bumblebee is a metaphor for the state of Israel. If one were to apply rational criteria, Israel’s existence would be in jeopardy.
The… Read more
