A passion for work

In an industry that celebrates extravagance and showmanship, Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer was a rarity, a man who guarded his privacy fiercely and believed that film provid...

Abstract One of the most widely read and studied texts composed in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, a young woman of the elite classes who was m...

Jesus’ Crown of Thorns has become one of the most ubiquitous features of Christian religious art, but was the crown of history anything like the crown of popular medieval art and p...

Translated into English for the first time,My AnimalsandFlowersbring forth Theodor Lessing’s visionary philosophy of need in an idiosyncratic series of musings on the natural world...

The Francis and Mary Crane Collection of Native American material culture at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science contains nearly 200 medals that they described as “relating t...

The doctrine that Christ has saved human beings from their sins, with all that that salvation entails, is the distinctive doctrine of Christianity. Over the course of many centurie...

Hume’s thesis that reason and passion cannot be opposed depends in part on his defense of the claim that because passions do not represent, they cannot oppose the representations, ...

Der Mythos von der schöpferischen Kraft des Leidens prägt zahlreiche Künstlerbiografien und kulminiert in der Vorstellung, dass das künstlerische Genie seine Erfindungen aus den du...