A Divine Spirit Transforming Humanity Divinely – By Gregory K. Hillis
Gregory K. Hillis on Thomas L. Humphries, Jr.’s Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great Prior to the late fourth century,
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Late Antique Christianity
A Deep Earthquake: Late Antique Sexuality and the Rise of Christianity – By Susanna Drake
Susanna Drake on Kyle Harper’s From Shame to Sin Anyone who has ever visited an exhibit of ancient Greek or Roman art is familiar
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The Problem with Identity in Late Antiquity – By Todd Berzon
Todd Berzon on Aaron P. Johnson’s Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity We know Porphyry of
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The “Age of Gold,” the Rise of Christianity, and the Fall of Rome – By John Behr
John Behr on Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550
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Incarnational Poetics and the New Theological Literary Studies – By Ryan McDermott
Ryan McDermott on Cristina Maria Cervone’s Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love I often have to explain to friends who
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Eusebius of Caesarea and the Making of Early Christianity – By Michael Hollerich
Michael Hollerich on Aaron P. Johnson’s Eusebius As one of the most prolific and influential personages of the early Christian world, Eusebius of Caesarea (c.
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Augustine and the Holy Spirit – By Thomas L. Humphries Jr.
Thomas L. Humphries Jr. on Chad Tyler Gerber’s The Spirit of Augustine’s Early Theology Saint Augustine of Hippo was a latecomer to Christianity. He joined the
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The Birth of Academic Biblical Studies – By Angela Roskop Erisman
Angela Roskop Erisman on Magne Sæbø, ed. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of its Interpretation, Volume III/1: The Nineteenth Century — a Century of Modernism
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The Book of Job’s Past, Present, and Future Consequences – By Davis Hankins
Davis Hankins on C.L. Seow’s Job 1-21: Interpretation and Commentary. An irony pervades the practice of writing the critical biblical commentary: quite often, the biblical
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How We Choose to Write History
David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate
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