One Text, One Truth?
How Tyndale Taught Us English Luther’s 95 Theses were written, as their opening says, “out of love for the truth and from desire
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The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
David Currell reviews recent books on a timely classic. Imagine this review beginning with
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Unreformable Ireland? The Failure of the Reformation in Ireland
Henry A. Jefferies on the contentious debate about why the Reformation failed in Ireland. What makes Ireland so interesting for Reformation studies is
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Queerness and Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible
Susan E. Haddox reviews Rhiannon Graybill’s Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets What does it mean to be a
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The Varieties of Memory: The Historiography of the German Reformation
Ute Lotz-Heumann on How Historians Grapple with the German Reformation Two (If Not More) Historiographies of the German Reformation The German Reformation has
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When Faith Alone Is Lost
Alec Ryrie on belief and doubt in Reformation culture The philosopher Charles Taylor puts his finger on the question. “Why was it virtually
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An Act of Solidarity
Margaret Litvin Reviews We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman To an academic, any collection of “voices”
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Unintended Consequences: How the Reformation Expanded Theology
Christopher Ocker on how the Reformation changed theology It all began with propositions “for a disputation for the sake of disclosing the power
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The Atrocity of Sunsets: Sixty Days in Guatemala
There are more greens in this world than the eye can see, and between Lake Izabal and the Gulf of Honduras they ascend
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Making God Speak English
Gordon Campbell on English translations of scripture In countries with a Protestant majority, the Reformation is widely regarded as a positive event, and
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