On Desiring God: A New Take on Feminist Theology – By Frances Young
Frances Young on Sarah Coakley’s God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’ Feminism and “patristics” (now often renamed early Christian studies)
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The “Age of Gold,” the Rise of Christianity, and the Fall of Rome – By John Behr
John Behr on Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550
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Incarnational Poetics and the New Theological Literary Studies – By Ryan McDermott
Ryan McDermott on Cristina Maria Cervone’s Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love I often have to explain to friends who
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Imagining Life Beyond Capital – By Joerg Rieger
Joerg Rieger on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century There may be no more important topic to discuss at present than that
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The Paradox of wu-wei – By Andrew B. Irvine
Andrew B. Irvine on Edward Slingerland’s Trying not to Try Almost all the arts of life are enhanced when performed with unselfconscious spontaneity
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A Thomism for Our Times: Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Lacan – By Rachel J. Smith
Rachel J. Smith on Tina Beattie’s Theology after Postmodernity — Divining the Void: A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas According to Michel de Certeau, historians traffic
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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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Letter to the Editors: The Rowan Williams Review – By Kevin Hector
Kevin Hector responds to Rowan Williams’s review I am humbled that Rowan Williams has even heard of my book, much less read it, and
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A Unified Reading of Maimonides’ Guide – By Dani Rabinowitz
Dani Rabinowitz on Josef Stern’s The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204), born in Córdoba during the twilight
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To Speak Truly About God – By Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams on Kevin Hector’s Theology without Metaphysics When we say that something is true or adequate, what are we claiming? We might
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