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2019-03-04T20:25:29-04:00

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Nicene Creed without Passive Voice

Last updated on: March 4, 2019 at 8:25 pm By D. G. Hart

I teach at an institution where we try to give instruction in good writing across the curriculum. Since I am currently grading a first round of papers in which I am particularly on the lookout for passive constructions, I sometimes carry that sensibility into worship and notice the passive voice in places I’d prefer not to see it, such as the Nicene Creed. Here is a fairly standard English translation with emphasis on the passive voice: We believe in one... Read more

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Nicene Creed

2019-03-01T12:11:18-04:00

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More Outlets Doesn’t Mean More Readers (or Listeners)

Last updated on: March 1, 2019 at 12:11 pm By D. G. Hart

Chris Gehrz makes a case for historians producing podcasts as a way of reaching a larger audience and so bringing the fruits of historical knowledge to public debates. He has in mind Max Boot’s recent argument that debates about foreign policy have suffered because historians have abandoned scholarship for general audiences in favor of specialized, overly precise, books that no one except trained historians and graduate students will read. We are back to a distribution problem — how scholars reach... Read more

2019-02-22T17:25:19-04:00

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What’s Good for Lincoln Is Good for Washington

Last updated on: February 22, 2019 at 5:25 pm By D. G. Hart

Today is the anniversary of George Washington’s birthday, a holiday that became collapsed with Lincoln’s birthday not to make us free but to give us a three-day weekend (for spending!). H. L. Mencken had a good sense for pretense, especially the way Americans (and humans) tend to revere and hallow mere mortals and turn them into divine-like beings (sort of like Jesus). Calling Washington an “indispensable man” is not exactly on the order of apotheosis, but it does dabble in... Read more

2019-02-15T15:48:21-04:00

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Even A Liberal Theocracy is Still Theocratic

Last updated on: February 15, 2019 at 3:48 pm By D. G. Hart

Alan Cross has to assert several times that in arguing for Christian involvement in politics, he is not advocating theocracy. But the question is how, once you uphold the Bible as a standard for even some parts of social life, you stop from applying biblical morality to everything? Is it possible to have only some of the Bible, to cut out the pieces we don’t like, the way Thomas Jefferson did? Cross, to be clear, was arguing against Jerry Falwell,... Read more

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2019-02-12T18:39:43-04:00

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If Abraham Lincoln were Donald Trump

Last updated on: February 12, 2019 at 6:39 pm By D. G. Hart

We might not have apotheosized the POTUS. We might have regarded them as real life human being full of flaws and not always serving the interests of the country. We might have even looked at Lincoln the way H. L. Mencken did: Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States—first, murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero;... Read more

2019-02-06T15:41:19-04:00

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Pay, Pray, and Obey is No Longer the Laity’s Paygrade

Last updated on: February 6, 2019 at 3:41 pm By D. G. Hart

One of the best books never read was Garry Wills’ Politics and Catholic Freedom. This was a 1964 book, written during the Second Vatican Council, that tried to put papal encyclicals in historical perspective. How binding were they? How many were there? What status did they have in the church’s teaching authority? These questions in some ways became obsolete once the bishops in Rome decided to update the church and gave the green light to the main assumptions of modern... Read more

2019-01-30T18:33:52-04:00

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Civil Religion Is a Problem, but Will Biblical Religion Save U.S.?

Last updated on: January 30, 2019 at 6:33 pm By D. G. Hart

Some evangelical (ambivalently so) historians, like David Swartz, admire politicians like Jimmy Carter and Mark Hatfield for being evangelical and avoiding being conservative (as conservatism is understood or misunderstood). Most people know Carter, the man who made born-again politics famous even before Jerry Falwell. Hatfield, though, suffers the fate of most politicians in America who do not become POTUS. In his day, the 1960s and 1970s, he was a prominent U.S. Senator from Oregon who was also a liberal within... Read more

Bible in American Life

sacred/secular distinction

2019-01-29T18:08:04-04:00

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Evangelicalism’s Border Walls

Last updated on: January 29, 2019 at 6:08 pm By D. G. Hart

A stray book review in need of a home landed in my in-box. Evangelicals in the United States who are both awake and asleep might want to ponder its implications, not to mention the lessons that those who observe evangelicals (historians and journalists) could learn: Lydia Bean, The politics of evangelical identity: Local churches and partisan divides in the United States and Canada (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2014), xviii+316 pp. One of the most striking statistics coming out of the last... Read more

2016 Presidential Election

United States of America

2019-01-25T17:39:27-04:00

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The Worse it Gets, the More Attractive?

Last updated on: January 25, 2019 at 5:39 pm By D. G. Hart

I would have thought that the recent scandals among Rome’s bishops would diminish some of the communion’s appeal. To make matters worse, Charlotte Allen, observed how quickly Rome’s clergy abandoned the Covington, Kentucky high school students who lit Twitter for almost a week: The long-term takeaway from the sorry incident isn’t the complicity of the mainstream media in broadcasting a lie after failing in their basic journalistic duty to do some reporting (we all know the media are primed to... Read more

Roman Catholic exceptionalism

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2019-01-21T17:52:24-04:00

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Nathan Glazer

Last updated on: January 21, 2019 at 5:52 pm By D. G. Hart

Over the weekend one of the prominent New York neo-conservative intellectuals, the sociologist, Nathan Glazer died. He was 95. He was a mensch. He is also one of the most likable subjects in the fascinating documentary about the neo-cons, Arguing the World, a film that features Glazer, Irving Kristol, Daniel Howe, and Daniel Bell. One of his famous essays, “The Limits of Social Policy,” came out almost 50 years ago. It still captures some of the basic dynamics of our... Read more

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