The Pale Galilean: Ernest Renan, Jesus, and Modern History
Will Theiss on France’s greatest historian In 1884, General Charles Gordon, the bumbling British imperialist who had earned his fame in China, was
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Reviews
The Poetry of Divinity: Defending Religious Poetry
Tom Millay reviews Kevin Hart’s Poetry and Revelation: For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry Kevin Hart is not one to boast. Nothing in
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Discoveries in the Ethiopian Desert
Exploring the Ancient Gospels of Ethiopia It’s not every day that scholars discover new Bible manuscripts from the ancient world. It’s even rarer
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Capitalism as Religion: How Money Became God
Regina Munch on Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream “Where’s the management section?” a man
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The Wisdom of Death
Samuel Loncar considers how death can save our lives All life ends. The heat of breath chills to ragged wheezing. Finally movement and
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An Act of Solidarity
Margaret Litvin Reviews We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman To an academic, any collection of “voices”
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Does Jewish Logic Necessarily Lead to Israel?
Jacob Abolafia on the existential and political character of 20th-century American Jewish life O you youths, western youths, So impatient, full of action,
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Performing Sacred Tragedies
A review of Rowan Williams, The Tragic Imagination. After he was shot and killed by police in 2014, Michael Brown’s body lay alone
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Grandpa Milbank
A review of John Milbank and Adrian Pabst’s The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future. The afternoon that I began reading
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Fear of a Black Planet
On the Unbroken Tradition of White Supremacy in American Politics: A Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power I’m blacker than midnight
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