Pilgrimage to Reclaim a Matriarchal Christianity, Celebrate the Sacredness of Sexuality and Femininity
Leigh Ann Craig on Anna Fedele’s Looking for Mary Magdalene In the summer of 2004, a group of women who had just visited
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Can “Neutral” Historical Scholarship Successfully Grasp a Theologian Who Deconstructed his Own Self?
Gorazd Kocijančič on Charles M. Stang’s Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite At the end of the 1980s Jacques Derrida gave a
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Papal Roundup
February 27: Brian Flanagan, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the upcoming conclave: Considering the role of the pope in a post-Christian
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The Church’s New Abraham
No longer an ark in a flood, the Church under Francis is on a journey. In the wake of Pope Benedict’s resignation, some
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A Pope from the Ends of the Earth – By Thomas Bolin
Francis redraws the Church’s map. It’s about time. Gesture is the language of the Roman hierarchy, and the “grammar” of the Pope’s first
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Jon D. Levenson Talks to Charles Halton about Abrahamic Religions
Which Abrahamic tradition? Jon Levenson’s Inheriting Abraham Abrahamic religions. We’ve all heard the phrase and many of us use it. It implies a
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A Conversation with Verlyn Klinkenborg on the Craft of Academic Writing
Abstract, dull & essentially passive. It doesn’t have to be this way. Short Sentences About Writing and academic literature. I’ve made my way
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Is there a political theory in the Hebrew Bible?
Phillip Sherman looks past Athens reading Michael Walzer’s In God’s Shadow. What is the relationship between the God of Israel and the politics
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John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the upcoming conclave: Considering the role of the pope in a post-Christian world
Like Nixon in China, Benedict reshaped the image of the papacy. Two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, almost everything that
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