Islam and the Enlightenment
Irfan Ahmad on Islam today If Immanuel Kant was the “Papa Enlightenment Subject,” a phrase used by anthropologist William Mazzarella, literary critic Edward
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Philosophy
The Pursuit of Kierkegaardian Virtue
Thomas J. Millay on Sylvia Walsh In November of 2013, Sylvia Walsh delivered a lecture on Kierkegaard and virtue at Baylor University that
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The Ethnocentrism of Science: Race, Biology, and Bigoted Fictions
Matthew Mutter on Charles King Near the end of Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King plucks a 1958 letter from Margaret Mead’s
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Poetry: Politics, Religion, and Peace. An Interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Part Two
Pádraig Ó Tuama in Conversation with Marginalia’s Editor, Samuel Loncar This conversation was held at Niebuhr Hall, and kindly co-sponsored by Yale Divinity
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Irony in the Age of Trump
Samuel Loncar on Irony as a Lost Virtue in Need of Recovery Irony traces the curve of human existence striving to be a
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Education and The Crisis of Christian Civilization
Mike St. Thomas on Alan Jacobs A dozen years ago, I spent some time tutoring a home-schooled student through his senior year of
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Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd
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Beyond Supersessionism: Paul Tillich on Judaism
Susannah Heschel Reviews Robert Meditz After reading this excellent study of Paul Tillich, based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, I realized that the
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Theological Philosophy: Rethinking the Rationality of Christian Faith
Yonghua Ge reviews Lydia Schumacher’s Theological Philosophy: Rethinking the Rationality of Christian Faith Apologetics, the discipline that defends the reasonableness of faith against its
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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