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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The Apocalyptic Secret of Judaism and Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Books of Jacob”
Elliot R. Wolfson The acclaim for Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob is demonstrated in its receiving the Nike Award, Poland’s top
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Christopher Nolan’s Haunted Humanism
Ahmed Elbenni on Christopher Nolan spoiler alert Interstellar is often read as a direct expression of Christopher Nolan’s theology of exclusive humanism, which
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Marilynne Robinson’s Everyday Saints
Abram Van Engen on Marilynne Robinson In her 2004 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson includes an odd scene. The narrator, an old,
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The Critics versus Queen
If we’re lucky, we’ve killed a man. A self that has to pass away for something new to be born. People are buying
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All Eyes on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian for our Troubled Time
Javier Garcia on Christ, Church, and the World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics One figure who has proven particularly resilient to
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The Trial of the Talmud
Anti-Judaism and the Talmud in Medieval French Society The thirteenth century was a tumultuous time for the Jews of France. New regulations limited
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Figuring the Unknown
A review of Judith H. Anderson’s Light and Death: Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton. In 1959, a British novelist and chemist named
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