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Spectres of the Real Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship – By T.J. Lang

May 26, 2015May 26, 2015

T.J. Lang on Benjamin L. White’s Remembering Paul The fashionable dictum among historians today is that biographies do not repristinate their subjects “as ... [Read More]

Theology and the University: A Lover’s Quarrel – Jonathan D. Teubner

May 26, 2015May 26, 2015

Jonathan D. Teubner on Johannes Zachhuber’s Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany “A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution,” ... [Read More]

First Impressions #35: Jason Bivins

May 12, 2015May 12, 2015

Art Remillard talks with Jason Bivins about his new book Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. Bivins is Professor of Religious Studies at ... [Read More]

Angels: Here, There, and Everywhere – By Robin Darling Young

April 28, 2015April 28, 2015

Robin Darling Young on Ellen Muehlberger’s Angels in Late Ancient Christianity “Some have entertained angels unaware,” according to the author of Hebrews — ... [Read More]

Blaise Pascal on Lying to Oneself (and Everybody Else) about Oneself – By Nicholas Moore

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015

Nicholas Moore on William Wood’s Blaise Pascal on Duplicity, Sin, and the Fall: The Secret Instinct The Pascal who penned the oft-quoted aphorism, ... [Read More]

Philosophy in Dialogue – By Matthew A. Benton

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015

Matthew A. Benton on Timothy Williamson’s Tetralogue: I’m Right, You’re Wrong Living in society means learning from, and disagreeing with, others. Much of what ... [Read More]

A Divine Spirit Transforming Humanity Divinely – By Gregory K. Hillis

February 17, 2015February 17, 2015

Gregory K. Hillis on Thomas L. Humphries, Jr.’s Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great Prior to the late fourth century, ... [Read More]

Religion Evolves – By Patrick Arnold

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015

Patrick Arnold on J.L. Schellenberg’s Evolutionary Religion One of the most radical implications of the evolution of life on earth comes with the ... [Read More]

Suffering for Human Flourishing – By Thomas D. Senor

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015

Thomas D. Senor on Eleonore Stump’s Wandering in Darkness Saying that Eleonore Stump’s Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering is ... [Read More]

Divided by Reason – By David R. Swartz

January 6, 2015January 6, 2015

David R. Swartz on Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. In 1994, historian Mark Noll published his ... [Read More]

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