A Christian-Muslim Mosaic of Accommodation and Partition – By David Bertaina
David Bertaina on on Michael Penn’s Envisioning Islam At the beginning of his reign (705-715), the caliph al-Walid inaugurated the creation of a
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Late Antique Christianity
Orthodoxy as Orthopraxy in Late-Antique Christianity – By Iuliana Viezure
Iuliana Viezure on David Michelson’s Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug Philoxenos, the bishop of Mabbug in Syria between 485 and 519, is
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God’s Recovery – By Gregory W. Lee
Gregory W. Lee on Khaled Anatolios’ Retrieving Nicaea Debates regarding the doctrine of the Trinity are often presented as a classic example of
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In the Footsteps of Shenoute – Caroline T. Schroeder
Caroline T. Schroeder on Bentley Layton’s The Canons of Our Fathers Every year in the month of July over ten thousand pilgrims flock
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Envisioning Divine Mystery: Scripture, Creation, and Christ in the Theology of the Ancient Syrian Poets – By Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent on Beggiani’s Early Syriac Theology Chorbishop Seely Joseph Beggiani’s second edition of Early Syriac Theology (first published in 1983) introduces
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An Immodest Proposal – By Maria Doerfler
Maria Doerfler on Kate Wilkinson’s Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity One of the distinct pleasures of living in New York City is
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The Scandal of Silence – By Sarah Coakley
Sarah Coakley on Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Silence Silence is golden. Or is it? In this intriguing survey of the theme of silence in Christian
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Worlds Together: Gregory, Julian, and the Heirs of the Classical Heritage – By John Anthony McGuckin
John Anthony McGuckin on Susanna Elm’s Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church Susanna Elm has produced a work that shakes the classical
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Angels: Here, There, and Everywhere – By Robin Darling Young
Robin Darling Young on Ellen Muehlberger’s Angels in Late Ancient Christianity “Some have entertained angels unaware,” according to the author of Hebrews —
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Metaphor and Its Limits – By Ellen Muehlberger
Ellen Muehlberger on Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World Douglas Boin starts his new book by revealing a secret about himself:
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