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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Sacrifice Revisited
Sacrifice has endured as a permanent fixture on our horizon. Its roots can be traced back to the mists of time before history
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An Unreliable Alchemy
Irina Dumitrescu on the enchantment of books, early reading experiences, and the stories that shape us One day the world shifted, and no
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The World the Reformation Made?
Joel F. Harrington on the modern world and the meaning of the Reformation In 1976, the novelist Kingsley Amis imagined a modern world
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Revolutionary Reading? The Bible of the Reformers
Relearning Where to Stand In the year 1600, there were only a handful of known heliocentrists. Galileo, of course, would do a great
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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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Separating the Two Swords
Sarah Mortimer on the Reformation and political thought The theological revolution begun by Martin Luther in 1517 not only challenged the authority of the
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Reading the Bible with Authority
Bruce Gordon on the problem of who says? Perhaps the most well-known aspect of the Reformation was how it made the Bible available in
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Edom Divided: Jews and the Reformation
Lars Fischer on Jewish views of the Reformation and Christian anti-Judaism “The Reformation” is really an umbrella term that covers a whole range
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Ad Fontes: How the Bible Shaped a Movement
G. Sujin Pak on the significance of theology for the Protestant reformers Martin Luther’s reformation was theological through and through. At its very
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