Domus Magna: The Enduring Power of the Psalms – By David W. Stowe
David W. Stowe on Susan Gillingham’s Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms Psalm 137 is one of the more ubiquitous psalms in
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Christian History
The Memphis Kneel-ins and the Desegregation of the Southern Church – By Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Phillip Luke Sinitiere on Stephen R. Haynes’s The Last Segregated Hour Recent panel discussions, colloquia, documentaries, and books have been celebrating pivotal moments in the
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Patristics†
David Lincicum on Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him. Conventional wisdom
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A Sustained Protestant Onslaught Against Indian Religion
Brian Stanley on Robert A. Yelle’s The Language of Disenchantment Is the world becoming more secular? Debate on this persisting question shows no sign of
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How Ancient Jewish Letter-writing Shaped the New Testament – By M. Eugene Boring
M. Eugene Boring on Lutz Doering’s Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes
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Politics and Culture Wars on the Other Side of American Evangelicalism – By Todd M. Brenneman
Todd M. Brenneman on David R. Swartz’s Moral Minority Much of the attention paid to contemporary evangelicalism in the United States has focused
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Wyclif’s Theology for the Laity
Ian Christopher Levy on Stephen E. Lahey’s Wyclif: Trialogus The Late Middle Ages witnessed a narrowing of the divide that had traditionally separated
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Clement of Rome’s Mediterranean Travels, the First Christian Novel, and the Character of Early Christianity
James Carleton Paget on F. Stanley Jones’s Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque inter Judaeochristiana F.C. Baur is regarded as the founder of the modern study of
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Were the Theologies of Wyclif and Hus Really That Radical?
Frans van Liere on Ian Christopher Levy’s Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages Biblical hermeneutics
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Has the Grasp of Science Outstripped its Reach?
Francis J. Caponi on Michael Dodds’s Unlocking Divine Action In Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist NeoDarwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly
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