Daniel Taylor’s three mystery novels—Death Comes for the Deconstructionist (2014), Do We Not Bleed? (2017), and Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees (2020)—are real page-turners.  They deliver suspenseful plots, delight by rich allusions, and challenge through thoughtful explorations.  

One of the most difficult realities to teach is time. Whether one is trying to convey what Plato means when he writes that “time is a moving image of eternity” (Timaeus) or when Augustine writes that the present always is and that time is “extendedness . . . of the mind itself” (Confessions), students have a tough time even beginning to imagine what those descriptions could mean, as we moderns tend to think about time as a series of empty and static moments lined up continuously, in which events happen to occur.