Philosophical Sufism in Translation
Cyrus Ali Zargar As someone who studies classical Sufism, I want to share the wonder that strikes me when encountering primary sources. Yet
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Philosophy
Inheriting Autonomy: The German Romantics Reconsidered
Frederick Beiser on Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf Andrea Wulf’s book Magnificent Rebels is a portrait of the early romantic circle in Jena
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Can Weimar Germany Help Us Now?
Evan Kuehn on Humberto Beck If you want to draw a simplistic historical analogy that emphasizes the sheer evil of a person, there
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Why Livy Matters
Ayelet Haimson Lushkov Some people have all the luck. Alexander the Great said that he loved his tutor, the philosopher Aristotle, more than
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Spiritual Bridges: Across Time and Space
Aqsa Ijaz on Thomas Harrison Bridges, of all kinds, have traditionally represented our desire to know and connect with what’s on the other
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Scholarship Out of Time: Weimar’s Lost Existence
Samuel J. Loncar on Anachronism in Philosophy, Religion, and Heidegger’s Existence and Time (Sein und Zeit) The Forum provides a home for original
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Liberalism’s Interest in Theology
Evan F. Kuehn In 2013 I attended a dinner hosted by the Lumen Christi Institute, a center for Catholic thought adjacent to the
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Why Josephus Matters
Steve Mason on Flavius Josephus If we leave biblical and New Testament authors out of the frame, Flavius Josephus (37–100+ CE) was the
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Christianity’s Shadow Founder: Marcion, Anti-Judaism, and the Birth of Liberal Protestantism
Samuel Loncar on Marcion The Forum provides a home for original and creative works of scholarship with the goal of making significant specialist
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Why Philo Matters
Gregory E. Sterling on Philo of Alexandria “What should I say about Philo whom critics call…the ‘Jewish Plato’?” So said Saint Jerome, who
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