Islam, Sex, and Secularism
Aaron Stauffer on Scott’s Sex and Secularism In 1903 the black socialist preacher, Rev. George Washington Woodbey wrote his first socialist pamphlet, “What to
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Study of Religion
The Modern Mosaic of Science and Religion – by Donovan Schaefer
Donovan Schaefer on Peter Harrison’s The Territories of Science and Religion Are science and religion doomed to clash? Are they irreconcilable — a
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Modernity and Mineness – By Andrew Dole
Andrew Dole on Kevin Hector’s Theological Project of Modernism My life revolves around a variety of projects. Some are mostly under my control:
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Whose God was Slain? Anthropology and the Diversity of World Christianity – By Jason Bruner
Jason Bruner on Timothy Larsen’s The Slain God Is anthropology inherently inimical to the truth claims of the Christian faith? In The Slain
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Why Can’t We Be Friends? Karen Armstrong on Religious Violence – By Sarah Rollens
Sarah Rollens on Karen Armstrong’s Fields of Blood Recipe for a popular book on religion: one provocative meta-topic (violence is heavily in demand
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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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When America Was Born Again – By Neil J. Young
Neil J. Young on Steven P. Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years In 1976, as Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White
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Spectres of the Real Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship – By T.J. Lang
T.J. Lang on Benjamin L. White’s Remembering Paul The fashionable dictum among historians today is that biographies do not repristinate their subjects “as
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Theology and the University: A Lover’s Quarrel – Jonathan D. Teubner
Jonathan D. Teubner on Johannes Zachhuber’s Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany “A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution,”
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Belief Is Not Dead: Science, Theology, and Culture in Graham Ward’s Unbelievable – By Sarah Lane
Sarah Lane on Graham Ward’s Unbelievable The topic of belief can seem an awkward guest in contemporary discussions of epistemology. Tacitly or openly
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