Is Compassion Kosher? – By Kari Weil
Kari Weil on Gross’s Question of the Animal and Religion For most Americans, animals are ubiquitous in our lives. There are the so-called
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Theology, Philosophy & Ethics
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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Analytic Theology and the Doctrine of the Trinity – By Edward Brooks
Edward Brooks on Hasker’s Metaphysics & the Tri-personal God What has analytic philosophy to do with the doctrine of the Trinity? ‘As little as
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The Limits of Language – By Michael P. Jensen
Michael P. Jensen on Rowan Williams’s The Edge of Words Talking seems so simple and so habitual, that we forget how fraught with
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Christian Sex, Christian Ethics – By Marvin M. Ellison
Marvin M. Ellison on Jung and Stephens’s Professional Sexual Ethics When it comes to sex and sexuality, Christians are often at their worst: fearful
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Piety, Peril, and the Politics of Place – By Jill DeTemple
Jill DeTemple reviews Kevin O’Neill’s Secure the Soul As the recent debates in the US Congress remind us, security is an organizing principle
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Religious Spacemen? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and (Extra)-Terrestrial Faith – By Gavin Merrifield
Gavin Merrifield on David Wilkinson’s Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is our blue planet Earth the only world inhabited by
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On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider
Suzanne Schneider on Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation In 1935, the British-run Government of Palestine convened a meeting between the Zionist National
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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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Thinking with Heidegger: On the Theological Implications of an ‘A-theistic’ Philosophy – By Christopher Barnett
Christopher Barnett on Judith Wolfe’s Heidegger and Theology The opening sequence of Terrence Malick’s 1998 film, The Thin Red Line, is not so
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