Corrective Spaces – by Sarah E. Bond
Sarah E. Bond on Julia Hillner’s Prison, Punishment, and Penance in Late Antiquity Curated spaces have the ability to embody our belief systems,
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Rome
Urban Afterlives – by Dana Robinson
Dana Robinson on Hendrik W. Dey’s Afterlife of the Roman City The fall of Rome was an urban affair. Alaric’s sack of the
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A Book about Books and a Collection on Collections – By Drew Longacre
Drew Longacre on George W. Houston’s Inside Roman Libraries In the fall of 54 BCE, Cicero wrote to his brother Quintus, “After a
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The Summit of Spiritual Perfection in the Messiness of Worldly Affairs – By John Moorhead
John Moorhead on George Demacopoulos’s Gregory the Great Pope Gregory the Great was one of those people who found himself pulled in very
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What Has Practice to Do with Theology? – By Bradley Peper
Bradley Peper on J. Patout Burns Jr. and Robin M. Jensen’s Christianity in Roman Africa Traditionally, studies in early Christianity have emphasized one
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Bishops, Presbyters and Other Elusive Offices in the Early Church – By Dan Batovici
Dan Batovici on Alistair C. Stewart’s The Original Bishops Our understanding of how the earliest Christian churches were organized is built on precious
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When Christians Became Iranian – By Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith on Richard Payne’s A State of Mixture The story typically told about the Christians of the Sasanian Persian Empire is not
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Politics and Paul: Reviewing N.T. Wright’s Political Apostle – By Michael Thate
Michael Thate on N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God “There is […] an elusively expansive cultural revolution curled up, as if still
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