There is a woman in the water meadows of Oxford. Draped in Oxford blue, she sits in quiet majesty, her lap sheltering a small, idealized city. Its dreaming spires rise like prayers from her womb. She is Isis, Queen and Mother, as imagined by Evelyn Dunbar in her painting Oxford.

These key lines raise the following considerations: 1. (1) the presence of a question of choice in the equation ("what...we can possibly do, you and I, to untie the difficult knot"),[12] 2. (2) the necessity of making a decision to alter the status quo ("to

Editorial Note: This article was originally written in 2016. The Tower of Babel rises, not as ruin, but as ambition carved in stone. Pieter Bruegel the Elder captured more than mortar and men. He gave us a vision of collective striving, a skyward hunger to reach the divine through human

Bradbury, the prophet of a future age, warns that the great peril is not merely the loss of books. Rather, tragically, the peril is the slow erosion of the mind’s capacity to think freely. The danger begins not with fire and censorship. Gradually, with habit and the quiet surrender

Reflective Commentary (2025) At the time of composing this essay in 2014, Richard Wilbur stood in his ninety-fourth year. I had mistakenly thought that he had already passed, but he was very much alive, a fact Professor Robert Woods gently noted with the hopeful remark, “He is still alive

The Holy Bible, recognized within the Christian tradition as inspired by the Spirit, has long served as a principal authority in both church and academy. Its canon, recognized across centuries, became foundational for study and was frequently cited as sufficient for “all things that pertain to life and godliness” (2

Did the God of the Holy Bible endow Pope Leo with papal infallibility, or did God grant Christian liberty to Luther’s constituents to stand against what they perceived as doctrinal and moral issues of the Church? The inherent difficulty with the question is that the two perspectives are mutually

This review examines Richard Whatmore’s contribution to the field of intellectual history, a work of notable clarity and ambition.. The review was published in the Journal of Faith and the Academy 9, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 93-95. Book Review Whatmore, Richard. What is Intellectual History? Cambridge, UK: Polity