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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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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Metaphor and Its Limits – By Ellen Muehlberger
Ellen Muehlberger on Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World Douglas Boin starts his new book by revealing a secret about himself:
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How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography – By John David Penniman
John David Penniman on Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World The question of what happened to the Roman Empire between
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First Impressions #29: Douglas Boin
Art Remillard talks with Douglas Boin about his new book Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made
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Milton Friedman Drove Out Leviticus – By Charles Halton
Charles Halton on Andro Linklater’s Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership Karl Marx summarized his assessment of the newly declared Commonwealth
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The Morning After – By Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope on Porochista Khakpour’s The Last Illusion I was in New York on September 11th. The sound of sirens jolted me out
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