Descending the Mountain: Questions after Sinai
Paul Mendes-Flohr reviews Revelation and Authority by Benjamin Sommer It is said that the Archbishop of Canterbury once approached the Chief Rabbi of
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Can We Separate Scripture and Tradition?
John C. Cavadini responds to Benjamin Sommer’s Revelation and Authority In his thoughtful, creative, and learned book, Revelation and Authority, Benjamin Sommers reflects
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After Revelation and Authority: Reflections from the Author
My reading of the Torah’s account of what happened at Mount Sinai in Exodus 19-20 and 24 forms the generative core of the
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Beyond Borders: America, Immigration, and the Future of Information
Editor Samuel Loncar’s Vision for Freedom and Depth in the Digital Age What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A
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Saint of Science: The Religious Life of Isaac Newton
Peter Harrison reviews Rob Iliffe’s Priest of Nature The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. When Isaac Newton died on March 31, 1727, his
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One Text, One Truth?
How Tyndale Taught Us English Luther’s 95 Theses were written, as their opening says, “out of love for the truth and from desire
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The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
David Currell reviews recent books on a timely classic. Imagine this review beginning with
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Unreformable Ireland? The Failure of the Reformation in Ireland
Henry A. Jefferies on the contentious debate about why the Reformation failed in Ireland. What makes Ireland so interesting for Reformation studies is
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Queerness and Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible
Susan E. Haddox reviews Rhiannon Graybill’s Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets What does it mean to be a
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The Varieties of Memory: The Historiography of the German Reformation
Ute Lotz-Heumann on How Historians Grapple with the German Reformation Two (If Not More) Historiographies of the German Reformation The German Reformation has
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