Perhaps now, more than ever, we need to consider afresh what's happening to English prose in cyberspace.
But in the flesh Armstrong brings an extra, more urgent dimension - the power to challenge audiences to consider afresh their prejudices about religion, and thus their own behaviour.
He did not come to a Socialist solution, but he had the great merit of having considered afresh the foundations of society.
"They will need to consider afresh... that there were no grounds for an investigation of KPMG [and] relevant senior KPMG people," said Mr Tyrie.
This means, at the very least, that as technologies develop, parliament should consider afresh the rules that govern their use by state agencies".
With little-known works and thoughtful juxtapositions, it considers afresh the notion of visual perception as inherently destabilized, whether by the changing position of the viewer or artist's own formal interventions.
"We are glad that this issue will now be considered afresh and are hopeful that the outcome will finally deliver increased competition in pay-TV which would be in the best interests of consumers," said a spokeswoman for BT.
Don't consider afresh each morning whether to work on your novel for 45 minutes before the day begins; once you've resolved that that's just what you do, it'll be far more likely to happen.
A larger firewall is now needed as Europe considers afresh a French plan for the creation of euro bonds, ponders Italy's proposal for a European-wide system of deposit insurance, and fights off a flight of capital from its periphery.
That decision has been the subject of a review by Alan Green QC, who has been asked to consider the "reasonableness" of the FSA's decision, and whether "the regulators should consider afresh whether any other former members of HBOS's senior management should be subject to an investigation with a view to prohibition proceedings".
