Demons and Western Psychology: The Unbounded Potential of The Monastic Mind
Daniel Eastman on Inbar Graiver How were Christian monks in the late antique Near East like modern cognitive psychologists? This question lies at
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Medieval & Early Modern Christianity
Bondage and Freedom in Luther
David Fink on some recent biographies of the reformer To make the way smoother for the non-specialist—for only them do I serve—I shall
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Last Words
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey analyzes the ritual of public execution in early modern Britain On the evening of his execution by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas,
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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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Puritans, Neo-Puritans, and the Ongoing Legacies of Mainline Protestantism – By Mark Hulsether
Mark Hulsether on Margaret Bendroth’s The Last Puritans For the past few decades, a top contender for the least cool topic in the
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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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Anglican Gothic in the British Empire – By Zirwat Chowdhury
Zirwat Chowdhury on G.A. Bremner’s Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870 Following a visit to Stirling Castle,
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Elizabethan and Jacobean Religious Controversies (the rest is silence) – By Sean Henry
Sean Henry on Peter Iver Kaufman’s Religion Around Shakespeare On 24th August, 1572, the feast of St. Bartholomew, the people of Paris rose up and
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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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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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