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The Christian Origins of Racism

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021
M. Lindsay Kaplan on Antisemitism to Racism Medieval claims about the Jews’ criminal role in the crucifixion consigned them to an enslaved status, ... [Read More]

Monastic Reform in the 12th Century

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021
Kevin Lord on Alison Beach The late eleventh and early twelfth centuries in the Holy Roman Empire were a period of dynamism and ... [Read More]

Palestinian Children’s Literature

February 12, 2021February 26, 2021
N.A. Mansour on Sonia Nimr We do not allow our characters rest. They are called upon to entertain us by darting to and ... [Read More]

The Crisis of Visible Divinity

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021
Kirsten Sanders on Brian Daley The opening chapter of Brian Daley’s God Visible introduces an earnest church historian. He has set out on ... [Read More]

In Defense of Our Obsessions

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021
Thomas Millay on Rita Felski Recently, I found myself watching an interview with the Irish fiction author Sally Rooney. She gave cogent answers ... [Read More]

How Papal History Was Invented

January 29, 2021February 26, 2021
Daniel Woolf on Stefan Bauer The papacy has survived heresy, schism, the Protestant Reformation, and internal challenges to papal authority—to say nothing of ... [Read More]

Heidegger and Kabbalah

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021
Shaul Magid on Elliot Wolfson Wolfson’s new book Heidegger and Kabbalah is arguably the magnum opus of his long and productive career. It ... [Read More]

Islam and the Enlightenment

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021
Irfan Ahmad on Islam today If Immanuel Kant was the “Papa Enlightenment Subject,” a phrase used by anthropologist William Mazzarella, literary critic Edward ... [Read More]

The Religion of Economics

January 15, 2021
Benedikt Koehler on the Enlightenment, Religion, and Mosaic Economics The Enlightenment purged economics of religion. This began when John Locke claimed that everyone ... [Read More]

Why George MacDonald Matters

January 15, 2021January 27, 2021
Timothy Larsen on the Victorian writer Once upon a time, when young princesses were still plentiful, there nevertheless was a scarcity of children’s ... [Read More]

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