[caption id="attachment_397" align="aligncenter" width="232" caption="Volume 3, Issue 1 - Fall 2006 (click for pdf)"][/caption] - Opinions - Mary for Biblical Christians: A Meditation on the Annunciation by Faye Darnall Anima Forma Corporis: on Symbols, the Sacred, and Festivity by Jordan T
11.1.2006| Table of Contents, Volume 3, Issue 1 | Jordan D. Teti
No CommentsChristmas is upon us, when we celebrate the beautiful, impossible assertion that unites Christians across our cultural and theological divides: God came into the world to save us. The season turns our thoughts to how it happened, the stories of Jesus' birth. Christ is the center of these, of cour
11.1.2006| Opinions, Volume 3, Issue 1 | Faye Darnall
No CommentsOn Symbols, the Sacred, and Festivity Visit the ancient catacombs of Saint Callixtus, just outside of Rome along the Appian Way, and you will realize what a symbol means for a Christian. It is not simply a representative drawing, or a dispensable metaphor for something spiritual. Indeed, I think a
11.1.2006| Opinions, Volume 3, Issue 1 | Jordan D. Teti
No CommentsThe problem of translation has been analyzed, schematicized, theorized, and polemicized - but it has always been howled out in pain. In the now rarely printed 1611 Preface to the King James Version of the Bible, "The Translators to the Reader," an architectural translation elicits a less-than-hoped-
11.1.2006| Opinions, Volume 3, Issue 1 | Grace Tiao
No CommentsThe consecration of the state, by a state religious establishment, is necessary," wrote the political philosopher Edmund Burke, "to operate with a wholesale awe upon free citizens" because "all persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they
11.1.2006| Opinions, Volume 3, Issue 1 | Christopher Lacaria
No CommentsEditor's Note: This October, the first Ichthus lecture was delivered by J. Budziszewski in Emerson Hall on the topic of Natural Law. Budziszewski is a professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, and has written extensively on the subjects of politics, ethics, philosoph
11.1.2006| Features, Volume 3, Issue 1 | J. Budziszewski
No CommentsIt is almost impossible to say anything bad about Mma Precious Ramotswe, the warm and tenderhearted lady detective from Botswana at the center of Alexander McCall Smith's popular series, "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency." No one really has, and who could? If you have read the books, you know that
11.1.2006| Features, Volume 3, Issue 1 | Jordan Hylden
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