Renaissance

Reflective Commentary (2025) The following essay was written in 2014 for one of my earliest doctoral courses at Faulkner University. Dr. Robert Woods led the course titled “Introduction to Human Letters." An Evaluative Inquiry into the Life of the Modern Liberal Individual Leisure and festivity together form the foundation

Reflective Commentary (2025) This essay examines the layered meeting point of pagan and Christian traditions in Renaissance Florence, using the transformation of the Temple of Mars into the city's Baptistry as a symbol of wider cultural and theological interplay. My intent is not only to recount historical transitions

Reflective Commentary (2025) Composed during the course of my doctoral research, this essay is presented as an original scholarly inquiry into the nuanced negotiations of faith, authority, and the hermeneutics of tradition. As with Underhill’s steady regard for the interior life and Ackroyd's measured historicism, my approach