New Light from an Old Source: Cyril and Scripture – By Michael Cameron
Michael Cameron on Matthew Crawford’s Cyril of Alexandria’s Trinitarian Theology of Scripture It might be hard for outside observers to tell, but for
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In the Footsteps of Shenoute – Caroline T. Schroeder
Caroline T. Schroeder on Bentley Layton’s The Canons of Our Fathers Every year in the month of July over ten thousand pilgrims flock
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Religious Spacemen? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and (Extra)-Terrestrial Faith – By Gavin Merrifield
Gavin Merrifield on David Wilkinson’s Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is our blue planet Earth the only world inhabited by
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Onwards or Upwards? – By William Junker
William Junker on Hans Boersma’s Embodiment and Virtue in Gregory of Nyssa Hans Boersma’s latest book describes itself as “a rather traditional historical
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First Impressions #47: Steven K. Green
When did Americans start making the claim that the United States was founded as a Christian nation? Why has this myth been so
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The Sound of Meaning – By Vanessa De Gifis
Vanessa De Gifis on Karen Bauer’s edited volume, Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis We have all heard the philosophical question: If
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When America Was Born Again – By Neil J. Young
Neil J. Young on Steven P. Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years In 1976, as Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White
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First Impressions #42: E.M. Rose
Art Remillard talks with E.M. Rose about her new book, The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in
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First Impressions #41: Christian C. Sahner
Dave Krueger talks with Christian C. Sahner about his book Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present. Sahner is a history research fellow
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Everything You Own in a Box to the Left: Reclaiming the Potential of the Sacred in Music – By Lieke Wijnia
Lieke Wijnia on Christopher Partridge’s The Lyre of Orpheus In the song Irreplacable (2006), Beyoncé puts her lover’s possessions in a box and
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