Gothic on Trial – By James Alexander Cameron
James Alexander Cameron on Stephen Murray’s Plotting Gothic and Jonathan Foyle’s Lincoln Cathedral “Gothic.” Originally coined as a term of exclusion — things
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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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A Book about Books and a Collection on Collections – By Drew Longacre
Drew Longacre on George W. Houston’s Inside Roman Libraries In the fall of 54 BCE, Cicero wrote to his brother Quintus, “After a
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Orthodoxy as Orthopraxy in Late-Antique Christianity – By Iuliana Viezure
Iuliana Viezure on David Michelson’s Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug Philoxenos, the bishop of Mabbug in Syria between 485 and 519, is
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The Afterlife of Desire – By Heidi Marx-Wolf
Heidi Marx-Wolf on Taylor Petrey’s Resurrecting Parts Augustine believed that Adam and Eve would have indeed had sex in Paradise had they been
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The Summit of Spiritual Perfection in the Messiness of Worldly Affairs – By John Moorhead
John Moorhead on George Demacopoulos’s Gregory the Great Pope Gregory the Great was one of those people who found himself pulled in very
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La Dolce Vita: Desires and Despairs of Latin American Migrants in Rome – By Hillary Kaell
Hillary Kaell on Valentina Napolitano’s Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return Arrayed in white before the crowd at St. Peter’s in Vatican City,
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Faith in Motion: Techniques and Technologies of Prayer in the Appalachians and Beyond – By Bruno Reinhardt
Bruno Reinhardt on Anderson Blanton’s Hittin’ the Prayer Bones In his 1964 classic Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan argued that increasing mediatization has transformed
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Why Isn’t the Rhetorical Real? The Case of Epiphanius of Cyprus – By Todd S. Berzon
Todd S. Berzon on Young Richard Kim’s Epiphanius of Cyprus Epiphanius of Cyprus (ca. 315–403 C.E.) has never been held in especially high
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Grace and Transformation – By Susan Eastman
Susan Eastman on John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift In a remarkable movie called “The Fisher King” (1991), Robin Williams plays a homeless
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