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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Historical Theology
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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Max Weber on Religion: Beyond Secularization – By Johannes Zachhuber
The dismissal of Weber’s worth as a theorist of historical and contemporary religion is premature. The so-called secularization thesis — the notion that
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Onwards or Upwards? – By William Junker
William Junker on Hans Boersma’s Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa Hans Boersma’s latest book describes itself as “a rather traditional historical
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Thomas Merton and the Benefit of Recollecting Ancient Christian Worship – By Lee M. Jefferson
Lee M. Jefferson on Andrew B. McGowan’s Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective A Sufi scholar once
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A Divine Spirit Transforming Humanity Divinely – By Gregory K. Hillis
Gregory K. Hillis on Thomas L. Humphries, Jr.’s Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great Prior to the late fourth century,
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Augustine and the Holy Spirit – By Thomas L. Humphries Jr.
Thomas L. Humphries Jr. on Chad Tyler Gerber’s The Spirit of Augustine’s Early Theology Saint Augustine of Hippo was a latecomer to Christianity. He joined the
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Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis
Marco Demichelis on Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s Islam and the Fate of Others and Between Heaven and Hell While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist
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How Sufism and Jewish Mysticism Influenced Medieval Castilian Christianity – By Barbara Mujica
Barbara Mujica on Cynthia Robinson’s Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile An extraordinary sum of Passion-related texts and images produced in late medieval Europe
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Clement of Rome’s Mediterranean Travels, the First Christian Novel, and the Character of Early Christianity
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
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