Text Commentary

 "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter." Prov. 25:2

 Antiquity

Tatian (120-180)

 Irenaeus of Lyons (130-202)

-On the Eucharist

-On Hermeneutics

-On Providence and the State

Acts of John (on Icons) (3rd c.)

Ephraim the Syrian (306-373)

-On Language

Augustine (354-430)

-On Icons 

Cyril of Alexandria (376-444)

-On Mary

Isidore of Seville (560-636)  

-On Difference Between Old and New Testaments

Medieval

 

 

Early Modern 

John Donne (1572-1631)

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761)

-Conscience

-Hookerian Political Theory 

William Law (1686-1761)

-Covenantal Mysticism

-Ethics of Separation of Church and State

George Berkeley (1685-1753)

-Modern Monetary Theory 

-Conscience and Conversion 

-Ethics of Passive Obedience

-Dialectical Immaterialism 

 -Christian Metaphysics

 

Modern

Richard Oastler (1789-1861)

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

-Critique of Ideology

J. Neville Figgis (1866-1919)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)

-On Psychoanalysis as Secular Enthusiasm

C.H. Douglas (1879-1952)

-On Ultra-Modernism 

Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962)

-Messianic Buddhism

Alexandre Kojeve (1902-1968)

-Hegel as Revelation

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)

-The City and Civilization (without commentary)

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)

-Forgetting Foucault

Giorgio Agamben (1942-)

-Word ontology and naming in "What is Philosophy?"

-Sovereignty and Anarchy in "The Kingdom and the Glory"

-The Fracture of Life in "The Use of Bodies" 

-Form of Life in "The Highest Poverty"

-Salvation of the Present in "The Kingdom and the Garden"

-The State of Exception and the Camp in "Homo Sacer"

-Messianic Time in "The Time That Remains"