Tag Archives: NTJ

Taking Every Cat Captive

By D. G. Hart | Published: May 20, 2011

Partly to help out a friend, and also to acknowledge the pleasant companionship of our two felines, Isabelle and Cordelia, I reprint below a piece from the Spring 2009 issue of the Nicotine Theological Journal that followed the death of my first and my wife’s favorite pet, Skippie. Despite all their charms, our current cat… Read More→

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The Philonomian Temptation

By D. G. Hart | Published: January 21, 2010

Since some readers consider me clueless about the law to the point of being antinomian, the following essay, originally printed in the October 2002 issue of the NTJ, may be useful for clarifying the concerns of Oldlife. Ever since the sixteenth century Protestants have had to bear the accusation of being antinomian. The logic was,… Read More→

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Summer Reading

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 10, 2009

“I don’t read books, I write them.” The first time I said that I knew it didn’t sound good. And that was the point because it was actually more a joke on me than on those who haven’t written books. Historians do not write because they are necessarily wise. And the way historians write means… Read More→

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Don’t Bug Us

By D. G. Hart | Published: August 6, 2009

Which is another way of saying that back issues of the NTJ have been carefully pdf’ed and are beginning to be posted at the Back Issues page of this blog.  Many thanks to James H. Grant for this work, with an assist or two from Camden Bucey.

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Ad Hominem or, How to Read Criticism

By D. G. Hart | Published: July 29, 2009

Here are a couple hypotheticals. Both have to do with the ways people may take offense selectively. First, say I am a political theorist who greatly admires the Federalist Papers (which I am not) and the arguments found there about the need for a Constitution that specifies the branches of a new federal government and… Read More→

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