Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity
Paula Fredriksen on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely
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Christian History
Anti-Semitism and the Evolving Catholic Conscience
Martin Menke on John Connelly’s From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews New histories of the Shoah provoke
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Capturing the Paradox of Distaste and Desire – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their
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McMansions, Megachurches, and Meaning
Deborah Justice on Justin Wilford’s Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings
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The Activist of Andalusia: Ibn Hazm of Cordoba – By Paul L. Heck
Paul L. Heck on Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of A Controversial Thinker Ibn Hazm of Cordoba, pious scholar and
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Developing Genre: St. Augustine and David Foster Wallace – By Bradley M. Peper
Bradley M. Peper on Jennifer V. Ebbeler’s Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine’s Letters The late David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), arguably one
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How Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy Helped to Invent the South – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Bryan Giemza’s Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South In “Parker’s Back,” the titular character decides to get
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How did America’s Political Rhetoric Become so Biblical? – By Robert E. Brown
Robert E. Brown on James Byrd’s Sacred Scripture, Sacred War and Eran Shalev’s American Zion Martin Luther King, Jr. was the last great orator
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How Sufism and Jewish Mysticism Influenced Medieval Castilian Christianity – By Barbara Mujica
Barbara Mujica on Cynthia Robinson’s Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile An extraordinary sum of Passion-related texts and images produced in late medieval Europe
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The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John – By Wendy E.S. North
Wendy E.S. North on eds. Jan G. van der Watt & Ruben Zimmermann’s Rethinking the Ethics of John We search the Gospel of John in
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