Theologian and Author

Peter Leithart

2 articles 1999–2001

Peter Leithart is a theologian, author, and president of Theopolis Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. An ordained minister and prolific writer on theology, culture, and literature, he contributed essays to The Weekly Standard exploring religious history and the intersection of radicalism and orthodoxy.

Old Geneva & the New World;

March 26, 2001 · Peter J. Leithart, Magazine, Books and Arts

"Revisionism," the Reverend Rousas J. Rushdoony wrote in The Nature of the American System, "is long overdue in American history." That was nearly forty years ago, but the fact that Rushdoony's death on February 8, 2001, was widely ignored is a sign we're still waiting to see the revisionism for…

Can Radicals Be Orthodox?

November 15, 1999 · Peter J. Leithart, Magazine, Books and Arts

It was in 1990 that John Milbank's Theology and Social Theory hit certain theology circles like a bombshell.