First Things and Last Things in Christian Theology
Brad East on two major works of Christian thought Perhaps no part of the biblical story is so well-known or so contested as
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Reviews
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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Holy Humanitarians: Controversies in Christian Philanthropy
David C. Kirkpatrick reviews Heather D. Curtis’ Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid Many American evangelicals encounter the faces and stories of children
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Byzantine Worship in Captivity
Valentina Covaci reviews Daniel Galadza Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is far from the composed reverence
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The Wandering You: Jewish & American Identity
Erin Faigin on Shari Rabin’s Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America It was the opinion of Edwards, that the
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Crime and Consciousness in Modern Mexico
Matteo Cantarello on Pablo Piccato’s A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico Today, crime speaks a universal language. Every day and
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Does Law Disdain Literature?
Andrew Kau on The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his
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Border Crossings: Myths and Memories of Tolerance
Leslie Harkema Reviews Eric Calderwood’s Colonial al-Andalus This past summer, migrants from throughout Africa and elsewhere continued to make the journey to Ceuta and
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Bondage and Freedom in Luther
David Fink on some recent biographies of the reformer To make the way smoother for the non-specialist—for only them do I serve—I shall
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Subversive Islam
Robert W. Hefner on Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking Few fields of social inquiry have undergone as profound and recurring a series of
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