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Latest Issue
From the Editor’s Desk: Ad Fontes Summer 2024
Senior Editor Rhys Laverty introduces the Summer 2024 print edition of Ad Fontes.
Milton’s “Nativity Ode” and the Subversion of Magic
John Milton was well ahead of the curve when it came to "disenchantment" discourse.
When Tradition Becomes Tragedy: Thomas Aquinas and the Immaculate Conception
Thomas Aquinas did not believe that Mary was conceived without sin.
Approaching IVF By the Back Door
On PGT-M.
“When Faith did Change the Scene”: Theological Interpretation of Color in John Cotton and George Herbert
Toward a theology of color.
Homer in Wittenberg: A Review
Uncovering the influence of Homer on Philip Melanchthon.
Besom
An original poem by Dan Rattelle.
A Man Near Magnificence
An original poem by Colin Chan Redemer.
Votaries: The Blue Flower in Novalis, MacDonald, Lewis, and Robinson
Discover a forgotten influence on George Macdonald, C.S. Lewis, and Marilynne Robinson.
“And pain will be the thing that saves us”
An original poem by Tom C. Hunley