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One of the more curious phenomena of the West’s meaning crisis has been the turn of CEOs and business school professors towards the use of explicitly theological language

Facing Up to the City of God: Transposing Augustine’s Political Theology for Modern Christians

One of the more curious phenomena of the West’s meaning crisis has been the turn of CEOs and business school professors towards the use of explicitly theological language. The Financial Times and World Economic Forum are full of talk of highest principles, generative forces, and even souls. Under the new banner of ‘stakeholder capitalism’ we seem to be witnessing a wholesale re-purposing of capita

Heaven and Earth

The following is a translated and transcribed version of a french podcast recorded in March 2021 by Jonathan Pageau and Jean-Philippe Marceau. Thanks to Norm Grondin for the translation, transcription and edition.

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November 7, 2023

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Religious Symbolism and the Modern City, Part Two: Capitalism and Corporations

The previous part of this article accounted for the evolution of the city in the West since the sixteenth century, a period loosely described as ‘modernity’ since it succeeds the medieval period, the Protestant Reformation, and the Renaissance.

A Statute Forever: Reading Leviticus 16 Symbolically.

Leviticus 16 details the various rituals to be performed on the Day of Atonement. God begins his instructions by telling Moses that Aaron, as the priest, is not to enter the inner part of the Tabernacle whenever he wants (Lev. 16:2).

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