Peter J. Leithart

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  • Jul 11, 2025
    Chesterton was half-right: America is a “nation with the soul of a church.” The other half of the truth is that many of our churches lack basic features of historic...
  • Feb 21, 2025
    The Epistle to the Hebrews proclaims the superiority of the new to the old, the second to the first. Israel had its luxuriant wilderness sanctuary, its venerable Aaronic priesthood,...
  • Jan 17, 2025
    Music harmonizes what is logically contradictory, as an aesthetic “coincidence of opposites.” That phrase, associated with Nicholas of Cusa, accurately captures the...