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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Representing the Jews in Medieval Iberia – By Eva Frojmovic
Eva Frojmovic on Pamela Patton’s Art of Estrangement This important book undertakes for the first time, at least in an English publication, to
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Redeeming Jimmy Carter – By Andrew R. Murphy
Andrew R. Murphy on Randall Balmer’s Redeemer Just in case readers might miss the significance of the title emblazoned across the book’s front
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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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New Light from an Old Source: Cyril and Scripture – By Michael Cameron
Michael Cameron on Matthew Crawford’s Cyril of Alexandria’s Trinitarian Theology of Scripture It might be hard for outside observers to tell, but for
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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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Marriage, Metaphors, and Melodramas – By Darryl W. Stephens
Darryl W. Stephens on Leslie Harris’s State of the Marital Union It is easy to get tripped up by the tropes of our
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An Immodest Proposal – By Maria Doerfler
Maria Doerfler on Kate Wilkinson’s Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity One of the distinct pleasures of living in New York City is
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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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From the Literature of Reimagined Selves – Polly Zavadivker
Polly Zavadivker on An-sky’s Pioneers In the 1880s radical movements proliferated throughout the Russian Empire. Revolutionary ideas found expression in new forms of
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