Coffee Table Talk with Diarmaid MacCulloch
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
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Psmith’s Art of Cool: War and Zen in P.G. Wodehouse – By Ted Scheinman
Ted Scheinman on Psmith as philosophe and his spiritual calm Pelham Grenville Wodehouse committed his first act of civil disobedience in the nave
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Eusebius of Caesarea and the Making of Early Christianity – By Michael Hollerich
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.
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Reading Like a Religious Liberal – By Christopher White
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
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A Thomism for Our Times: Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Lacan – By Rachel J. Smith
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
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Coffee Table Talk with Sebastian Brock
[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
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The Mexican Plaza and the Transformation of Culture – By Jose Bernardi
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
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Jewish Families: From Babylon to Brooklyn and Back Again – By Kimberly Arkin
Kimberly Arkin on Jonathan Boyarin’s Jewish Families A central tension haunts contemporary Jewish studies. Historically, the discipline both presupposed and documented Jewish peoplehood —
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Augustine and the Holy Spirit – By Thomas L. Humphries Jr.
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
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July 4th and the 9/11 Museum in American Civil Religion – By Peter Gardella
Peter Gardella on July 4th and the values of American civil religion Approaching July 4th at this moment of widespread disillusionment with American politics,
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