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Politics and Culture Wars on the Other Side of American Evangelicalism – By Todd M. Brenneman

May 29, 2013January 27, 2014

Todd M. Brenneman on David R. Swartz’s Moral Minority Much of the attention paid to contemporary evangelicalism in the United States has focused ... [Read More]

Wyclif’s Theology for the Laity

May 29, 2013October 28, 2013

Ian Christopher Levy on Stephen E. Lahey’s Wyclif: Trialogus The Late Middle Ages witnessed a narrowing of the divide that had traditionally separated ... [Read More]

Clement of Rome’s Mediterranean Travels, the First Christian Novel, and the Character of Early Christianity

May 29, 2013October 28, 2013

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 ... [Read More]

Were the Theologies of Wyclif and Hus Really That Radical?

May 22, 2013October 28, 2013

Frans van Liere on Ian Christopher Levy’s Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages Biblical hermeneutics ... [Read More]

The Earliest Known Memoir in Ladino Reveals the Struggles of a Nineteenth Century Ottoman Jewish Community

May 22, 2013October 28, 2013

Nina Caputo on Rodrigue and Stein’s A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the ... [Read More]

Has the Grasp of Science Outstripped its Reach?

May 6, 2013October 28, 2013

Francis J. Caponi on Michael Dodds’s Unlocking Divine Action In Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist NeoDarwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly ... [Read More]

An-sky’s Vast Verbal Museum of Jewish Life in the Pale

May 3, 2013October 28, 2013

Harriet Murav on Nathaniel Deutsch’s The Jewish Dark Continent One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began ... [Read More]

How did Origen Vindicate God Amidst the Horrors of Evil and Suffering?

April 4, 2013October 28, 2013

Peter Martens on Mark S.M. Scott’s Journey Back to God Anyone with a smattering of training in religion or philosophy knows at least ... [Read More]

Pilgrimage to Reclaim a Matriarchal Christianity, Celebrate the Sacredness of Sexuality and Femininity

March 26, 2013October 28, 2013

Leigh Ann Craig on Anna Fedele’s Looking for Mary Magdalene In the summer of 2004, a group of women who had just visited ... [Read More]

Can “Neutral” Historical Scholarship Successfully Grasp a Theologian Who Deconstructed his Own Self?