St. Augustine and The American Apocalypse
Alexander Earl on Erik Kenyon If there is one word that captures the situation of “the West” it is crisis. The political crisis,
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Interpreting Miracles
Madeline McMahon on Robert A. Orsi & Karin Vélez The defining feature of a miracle is that it does not make sense in its context.
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“Judaism” Here, There, but not Everywhere: Persian and Other Non-Western Perspectives
Simcha Gross on Boyarin’s Judaism The key insight of Daniel Boyarin’s provocative new book is that to better understand the “different ways that”
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After Orientalism: The Muslim Left Today
Thomas Greene reviews With Stones in Our Hands The photograph is iconic: a 14-year-old Palestinian boy stands on a dirt road facing an
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Theology after the Death of God
Paul R. Hinlicky on Robert W. Jenson I. The theology of Robert W. Jenson signals epochal change. An American Lutheran who studied under
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Rhina Espaillat and the Lyre of Orpheus
Alfred Nicol Reviews Rhina P. Espaillat The power of even the best poets begins to flag as they reach their eighth and ninth
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Making the Arab World: A Review
Yoav Di-Capua Reviews Fawaz Gerges Sayyid Qutb’s friends and associates are finally talking. They didn’t say much in prison during the 1950s and 1960s,
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Christian Machismo?
Ross Wignall Reviews Brendan Jamal Thornton Juan Carlos was a drug dealer and user until he found God at the Pentecostal church in
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The Anxiety of Influence
Devin Singh responds to D. Stephen Long In my introduction to Divine Currency, I note in passing a set of concerns that often
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Confession and Cosmopolitanism
Frederick Klaits Reviews Jason Bruner What happens when people’s cultural and social horizons undergo dramatic shifts? For those who have experienced colonial rule,
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