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Theological Philosophy: Rethinking the Rationality of Christian Faith

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018

Yonghua Ge reviews Lydia Schumacher’s Theological Philosophy: Rethinking the Rationality of Christian Faith Apologetics, the discipline that defends the reasonableness of faith against its ... [Read More]

Systematic Theology and Biblical Criticism

June 22, 2017June 23, 2017

Brad East on Ephraim Radner’s Time and the Word Should the Bible be read like any other book? Such a question was not asked ... [Read More]

Haunted Bodies: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

June 21, 2017June 26, 2017

Alexandra Barylski on Molly McCully Brown’s The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded What sin warrants a blown brain, a lame body? ... [Read More]

Kinship with God: Indigenous Christianity in an Amazonian World

May 9, 2017May 12, 2017

Ryan Schram on Aparecida Vilaça’s Praying and Preying In her latest book, Praying and Preying, cultural anthropologist Aparecida Vilaça examines how the Wari’, ... [Read More]

Angels or Animals? Remixing Religion and Evolution with Affect Theory – by Beatrice Marovich

January 28, 2017February 4, 2017

Beatrice Marovich on Donovan Schaefer’s Religious Affects In the 1960s and 1970s, while observing chimpanzees in Tanzania’s Gombe Stream Reserve, primatologist Jane Goodall ... [Read More]

A New Synoptic Gospel? – by Sarah E. Rollens

September 24, 2016September 29, 2016

Sarah E. Rollens on James Barker’s John’s Use of Matthew For someone outside the field, New Testament scholarship can occasionally appear to be ... [Read More]

Spirit and Literacy, Prophecy and Modernity in a South African Church – by Kevin Ward

September 24, 2016September 29, 2016

Kevin Ward on Joel Cabrita’s Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church A hundred years ago, around the time of the ... [Read More]

Beyond the Abortion Wars: To Where? – by Kate Ott

September 11, 2016September 13, 2016

Kate Ott on Charles C. Camosy’s Beyond the Abortion Wars The topic of abortion has been at the political forefront, dividing party lines ... [Read More]

Jews and Muslims in France: Rethinking a History of Conflict, Colonialism, and Coexistence – by Rachel Eva Schley

September 10, 2016September 13, 2016

Rachel Schley on Ethan B. Katz’s The Burdens of Brotherhood For well over a decade there has been an active debate about the ... [Read More]

The Modern Mosaic of Science and Religion – by Donovan Schaefer