In philosophy’s halls, relatively few provide reason to be remembered as artists, not just philosophers. Solomon, Plato, the author of Job, these have that distinction. The second half of the nineteenth century brought its own candidate: Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche, unlike
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Hypocrisy, Insight, and Myopia: Nietzsche on Art
In philosophy’s halls, relatively few provide reason to be remembered as artists, not just philosophers. Solomon, Plato, the author of Job, these have that distinction. The second half of the nineteenth century brought its own candidate: Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche, unlike most famous philosophers, had real literary skill, skill he applied to create the narrative elements…
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The Theological Weight of Beowulf
Beowulf is a poem famous for, among other distinctions, having no faithful film adaptations—famous, also, for its connection to J.R.R. Tolkien, who both revolutionized the Beowulf scholarship of his day and incorporated copious influences from it into his little-known The Lord of the Rings. I read Beowulf because I was assigned it in school. Of…
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The World’s Center Cannot Hold
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was far from a Christian. Yet The Second Coming expresses viciously and poignantly a point crucial for Christians to understand about the world we find ourselves in. Though hell-bound, Yeats was a poet of great skill. Thus, he could bring men to understand the gut-churning emptiness and despair of a world…