An Androcentric Discipline? The Gender Troubles of Qur’anic Exegesis – by Ali Altaf Mian
Ali Altaf Mian on Karen Bauer’s Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an Gender is a widely debated topic in contemporary Islam. Many Muslims, and
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Reviews
Corrective Spaces – by Sarah E. Bond
Sarah E. Bond on Julia Hillner’s Prison, Punishment, and Penance in Late Antiquity Curated spaces have the ability to embody our belief systems,
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Urban Afterlives – by Dana Robinson
Dana Robinson on Hendrik W. Dey’s Afterlife of the Roman City The fall of Rome was an urban affair. Alaric’s sack of the
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Feeling Sorry the Wrong Way – by Anthony Bash
Anthony Bash on David Lambert’s How Repentance Became Biblical In some ways, regret, repentance, and remorse are popular emotions in the modern world.
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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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Problems of Poverty and the Recently Impoverished – By John Mandsager
John Mandsager on Gregg Gardner’s The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism According to Suetonius (Lives of the Twelve Caesars, II.91), once
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Feeding that Infinite Abyss Within – By John David Penniman
John David Penniman on Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine “Am I really all the things that are outside
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Renewing the Heart of Systematic Theology – By Brad East
Brad East on Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology, vol. 1 Academics love stories of decline, especially about themselves. But academic theologians may love them
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Practical Factors and Religious Belief – By Michael Pace
Michael Pace on Aaron Rizzieri’s Pragmatic Encroachment, Religious Belief, and Practice According to a recent Pew poll, the proportion of adults in the
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Augustine on Trial – Ron Haflidson
Ron Haflidson on Paul Rigby’s Theology of Augustine’s Confessions A friend of mine refers to her favorite thinkers of the departed white male
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