“Every morning you climb several flights of stairs, enter your study, open the French doors, and slide your desk and…
Writing without nets
love
Refusing the choice: Neither academic nor novelist, an experiment in writing
More than anything, the young Karl Ove Knausgaard wanted to write novels. But he couldn’t. “I couldn’t write, so I…
Law, love, phenomenology: Levinas between Lyotard and Marion
In the 1990s, Dominique Janicaud denounced authors such as Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion for engineering a "theological turn" in…
Love in dark times
Bouteldja’s “we” is resolutely impure, as is the “you” she addresses. And because it is impure, it is political. It…
Here’s your miracle
What is this? This, of course, is love. And as imagined through the idioms of Hollywood romance, this is decisively…
Love’s ladder’s God
It was their final conversation. She would soon die, although neither of them knew it at the time. St. Augustine…
Love, InshAllah
Over at the New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar writes about the recently published Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of…
A Christian rehabilitation of rights discourse
Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a unique---and uniquely readable---book. It skillfully constructs a case for the continuing force…
Not a foundation but a raft
Why should we conclude that God's love for human beings takes the form of attachment love as opposed, for instance,…
Justice and theism
The central claim of Nicholas Wolsterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is that justice is based on natural human rights that inhere…