Meister Eckhart: Dangerous Mystic
After nearly seven centuries of relative obscurity, the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart has emerged as something of a modern spiritual celebrity. Millions of
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Islam and Black Emancipation
Robert Dannin reviews Patrick D. Bowen’s The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 Twenty-five years ago I undertook similar research, and I felt like
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Neo-Donatists in Eden
Ed Simon on what to think of immoral artists Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase. His vision, exemplified by his epic The
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Reimagining Christian Identity in an Islamic World
Joshua Mugler Reviews Peter Schadler’s John of Damascus and Islam Over the past few years, the Christians of the Middle East and their relationship
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Bodies on the Margins: A Multitude of Voices
Kevin Timpe Reviews Elizabeth Barnes’ The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability Few of us like to anticipate what it would be like
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Authorship and Ownership: Whose Bible Is It Anyway?
Michael Hundley Reviews Sara Milstein’s Tracking the Master Scribe Despite its antiquity, the Bible remains the object of great public interest and scholarly
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The Painted Book: Illumination Revived
Jakub Koguciuk reviews Jonathan J.G. Alexander’s The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy Study of manuscript illumination in the Renaissance appeared pronounced dead before
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Honey on a Razorblade
Thomas J. Millay Reviews Kevin Hart’s Barefoot Dark One, I sit alone without a light And let the darkness bring me close to
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A Future for a Handful of Hours
Poet Rosebud Ben-Oni on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, promises, and a love that keeps us strangers It was not until our very
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Before Europe: The Christian West in the Annals of Medieval Islam
Arafat Razzaque reviews Daniel König’s Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West: Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe In 1961, nearly two decades before
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