A Christian-Muslim Mosaic of Accommodation and Partition – By David Bertaina
David Bertaina on on Michael Penn’s Envisioning Islam At the beginning of his reign (705-715), the caliph al-Walid inaugurated the creation of a
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Gnostic Apocalypse Now! – By Tuomas Rasimus
Tuomas Rasimus on Dylan M. Burns’s Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism Ever since the chance discovery in
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Christian Sexual Slander – By Taylor Petrey
Taylor Petrey on Susanna Drake’s Slandering the Jew The history of Christian anti-Judaism has become an important scholarly topic in the last half century, arising
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Incarnational Poetics and the New Theological Literary Studies – By Ryan McDermott
Ryan McDermott on Cristina Maria Cervone’s Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love I often have to explain to friends who
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“Beneficent Incision”: Midrash and the Contemporary Critical Moment – By Adam Zachary Newton
Adam Zachary Newton on Dina Stein’s Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self In a deeply learned set of essays collected under the title
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Politics and Culture Wars on the Other Side of American Evangelicalism – By Todd M. Brenneman
Todd M. Brenneman on David R. Swartz’s Moral Minority Much of the attention paid to contemporary evangelicalism in the United States has focused
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