Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis
Marco Demichelis on Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s Islam and the Fate of Others and Between Heaven and Hell While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist
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Necessary by Nature? Possibility and the Mind of God – By Robert Merrihew Adams
Robert Merrihew Adams on Brian Leftow’s God and Necessity Like their medieval scholastic predecessors, the best known Continental Rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth century (Descartes,
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How We Choose to Write History
David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate
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Biology, Ethics, and the Persistence of Religion – By Phillip Sherman
Phillip Sherman on Frans De Waal’s The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Chimpanzees are prone to extreme
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No Escaping the Cliché: The Legacy of Allan Sherman – By Stephen J. Whitfield
Stephen J. Whitfield on Mark Cohen’s Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman In the early 1960s Allan Sherman turned a
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Meaning and Mystery and Love – By Alissa Wilkinson
Alissa Wilkinson on Andre Dubus III’s Dirty Love Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins.
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Capturing the Paradox of Distaste and Desire – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their
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McMansions, Megachurches, and Meaning
Deborah Justice on Justin Wilford’s Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings
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The Canon(s) of the Jewish Scriptures
Edmon L. Gallagher on Timothy H. Lim’s The Formation of the Jewish Canon We don’t know where the Bible came from. It took shape over
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Always a Student: Remembering François Bovon
David W. Pao and David H. Warren pay tribute to their teacher, François Bovon On 1 November 2013, the world of New Testament
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