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Pilgrimage to Reclaim a Matriarchal Christianity, Celebrate the Sacredness of Sexuality and Femininity

March 26, 2013October 28, 2013
Leigh Ann Craig on Anna Fedele’s Looking for Mary Magdalene In the summer of 2004, a group of women who had just visited ... [Read More]

Can “Neutral” Historical Scholarship Successfully Grasp a Theologian Who Deconstructed his Own Self?

March 26, 2013October 28, 2013
Gorazd Kocijančič on Charles M. Stang’s Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite At the end of the 1980s Jacques Derrida gave a ... [Read More]

Papal Roundup

March 21, 2013August 30, 2013
  February 27: Brian Flanagan, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the upcoming conclave: Considering the role of the pope in a post-Christian ... [Read More]

The Church’s New Abraham

March 21, 2013March 29, 2013
No longer an ark in a flood, the Church under Francis is on a journey. In the wake of Pope Benedict’s resignation, some ... [Read More]

A Pope from the Ends of the Earth – By Thomas Bolin

March 16, 2013October 20, 2015
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 ... [Read More]

Jon D. Levenson Talks to Charles Halton about Abrahamic Religions

March 12, 2013March 12, 2013
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 ... [Read More]

A Conversation with Verlyn Klinkenborg on the Craft of Academic Writing

March 5, 2013March 6, 2013
Abstract, dull & essentially passive. It doesn’t have to be this way. Short Sentences About Writing and academic literature. I’ve made my way ... [Read More]

Is there a political theory in the Hebrew Bible?

February 28, 2013January 27, 2014
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 ... [Read More]

John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the upcoming conclave: Considering the role of the pope in a post-Christian world

February 27, 2013February 28, 2013
Like Nixon in China, Benedict reshaped the image of the papacy. Two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, almost everything that ... [Read More]

Reconstructing Akkadian Texts and Singing the Twelve Days of Christmas – By Jonathan Stökl

February 26, 2013February 10, 2014
Jonathan Stökl on Martin Worthington’s Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism This book is a rare jewel: an enjoyable, learned and very well informed ... [Read More]

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