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Few, I suspect, will instantly recall that 2025 marks four hundred years since the death of James VI and I. He had the ...

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David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian who has made waves in his own sphere through his radical atavism (he refers often to the early Church fathers’ concept of the divine), his sympathy ...