The Importance of Premillennialism – By Dan Hummel
Dan Hummel on Matthew Sutton’s American Apocalypse In 1970, an ex-tugboat captain and self-described prophecy expert named Hal Lindsey published The Late Great
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Christian History
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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On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider
Suzanne Schneider on Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation In 1935, the British-run Government of Palestine convened a meeting between the Zionist National
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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 Devil – Writ Large and in the Details – By Adam Kotsko
Adam Kotsko on Almond’s The Devil and Korpel and de Moor’s Adam, Eve, and the Devil At first glance, these two studies of
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Marcion and the Ideology of Texts – By Judith Lieu
Judith Lieu on Dieter Roth’s The Text of Marcion’s Gospel The name “Marcion” will evoke one or both of two images. The first
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Is There a Message In the Music? – By Anthony B. Pinn
Anthony B. Pinn on Robert Darden’s Nothing But Love in God’s Water Think about the following scene: Enslaved Africans physically abused, mentally tortured,
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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Lessons from Medieval Interfaith Relations – By Alex J. Novikoff
Alex J. Novikoff on David Nirenberg’s Neighboring Faiths Good fences make good neighbors, or so insisted Robert Frost’s curt and uncompromising neighbor in
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