Volume 3, Issue 1

3.1 – Fall 2006 – Table of Contents

– Opinions –
Mary for Biblical Christians: A Meditation on the Annunciation
by Faye Darnall
Anima Forma Corporis: on Symbols, the Sacred, and Festivity
by Jordan Teti ‘08
Translation Necessary
by Grace Tiao ‘08
Debunking the Church-State Dichotomy
by Christopher Lacaria ‘09

– Features -

The Second Tablet Project
by J. Budziszewski
Mma Ramotswe, Walker Percy, and the Danger of Tenderness
by Jordan Hylden ‘06

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Mary for Biblical Christians

Christmas 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 course, yet someone else is always present,… more »

Anima Forma Corporis

On 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 walk through the crypts of… more »

Translation Necessary

The 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-for reaction from the Israelite public: “The temple built… more »

Debunking the Church-State Dichotomy

The 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 act in trust.”
In democracies such as ours which… more »

The Second Tablet Project

Editor’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, philosophy, and theology. He has written several books, including… more »

Mma Ramotswe, Walker Percy, and the Danger of Tenderness

It 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 Mma Ramotswe is a… more »