featured Archives | Page 51 of 63 | The Marginalia Review of Books

“Beneficent Incision”: Midrash and the Contemporary Critical Moment – By Adam Zachary Newton

August 5, 2014August 5, 2014

Adam Zachary Newton on Dina Stein’s Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self In a deeply learned set of essays collected under the title ... [Read More]

Coffee Table Talk with Diarmaid MacCulloch

July 22, 2014August 19, 2014

In this interview with MRB’s editor-in-chief Timothy Michael Law, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses his aims as a historian, his prolific career in writing and on ... [Read More]

Psmith’s Art of Cool: War and Zen in P.G. Wodehouse – By Ted Scheinman

July 22, 2014July 22, 2014

Ted Scheinman on Psmith as philosophe and his spiritual calm Pelham Grenville Wodehouse committed his first act of civil disobedience in the nave ... [Read More]

Eusebius of Caesarea and the Making of Early Christianity – By Michael Hollerich

July 22, 2014July 22, 2014

Michael Hollerich on Aaron P. Johnson’s Eusebius As one of the most prolific and influential personages of the early Christian world, Eusebius of Caesarea (c. ... [Read More]

Reading Like a Religious Liberal – By Christopher White

July 22, 2014July 22, 2014

Christopher White on Matthew S. Hedstrom’s The Rise of Liberal Religion One of my professors in graduate school, William Hutchison, a man sometimes called ... [Read More]

A Thomism for Our Times: Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Lacan – By Rachel J. Smith

July 22, 2014July 22, 2014

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 ... [Read More]

Coffee Table Talk with Sebastian Brock

July 8, 2014August 19, 2014

[AUDIO] Sebastian Brock on his life and work and the field of Syriac Studies MRB editor-in-chief Timothy Michael Law talks to Sebastian Brock in ... [Read More]

The Mexican Plaza and the Transformation of Culture – By Jose Bernardi

July 8, 2014July 14, 2014

Jose Bernardi on Logan Wagner, Hal Box, and Susan Kline Morehead’s Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space Architecture ... [Read More]

Jewish Families: From Babylon to Brooklyn and Back Again – By Kimberly Arkin

July 8, 2014July 8, 2014

Kimberly Arkin on Jonathan Boyarin’s Jewish Families A central tension haunts contemporary Jewish studies. Historically, the discipline both presupposed and documented Jewish peoplehood — ... [Read More]

Augustine and the Holy Spirit – By Thomas L. Humphries Jr.

July 8, 2014February 14, 2015

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 ... [Read More]

featured

“Beneficent Incision”: Midrash and the Contemporary Critical Moment – By Adam Zachary Newton

Coffee Table Talk with Diarmaid MacCulloch

Psmith’s Art of Cool: War and Zen in P.G. Wodehouse – By Ted Scheinman

Eusebius of Caesarea and the Making of Early Christianity – By Michael Hollerich

Reading Like a Religious Liberal – By Christopher White

A Thomism for Our Times: Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Lacan – By Rachel J. Smith

Coffee Table Talk with Sebastian Brock

The Mexican Plaza and the Transformation of Culture – By Jose Bernardi

Jewish Families: From Babylon to Brooklyn and Back Again – By Kimberly Arkin

Augustine and the Holy Spirit – By Thomas L. Humphries Jr.

Welcome!

You’ve found our old website, where you can still access all our past content while our migration takes place.

Read past and present content at
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com

Welcome!

You’ve found our old website, where you can still access all our past content while our migration takes place.

Read past and present content at www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com

Read past and present content at
www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com