Do Bible Scholars Need Theology?
Jon D. Levenson on Sommer’s Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition Before beginning my critique of Benjamin Sommer’s new book,
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Reader in a Lost World
Fantasies, like dreams, can surprise you. My fantasy is always the same. The sun streams over my shoulder—that crisp, new light of early
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First Things and Last Things in Christian Theology
Brad East on two major works of Christian thought Perhaps no part of the biblical story is so well-known or so contested as
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Theological Philosophy: Rethinking the Rationality of Christian Faith
Yonghua Ge reviews Lydia Schumacher’s Theological Philosophy: Rethinking the Rationality of Christian Faith Apologetics, the discipline that defends the reasonableness of faith against its
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Ocean Vuong: Poetry, Bodies, and Stillness. Alexandra Barylski interviews Ocean Vuong
Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which was a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the Whiting
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Decolonizing Philosophy: Samuel Loncar Interviews Carlos Fraenkel and Peter Adamson about Islam, Reason, and Religion
We think of philosophy today as an austere, secular, and narrowly academic enterprise. Because of its secularity and associations with atheism, many religious
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How I Became a Jewsuit
Sarit Kattan Gribetz Reflects on Jewish-Christian Difference in the 21st Century In 1962, my grandfather, a Swiss Jew from Zurich, sent a letter
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Holy Humanitarians: Controversies in Christian Philanthropy
David C. Kirkpatrick reviews Heather D. Curtis’ Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid Many American evangelicals encounter the faces and stories of children
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Byzantine Worship in Captivity
Valentina Covaci reviews Daniel Galadza Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is far from the composed reverence
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The Wandering You: Jewish & American Identity
Erin Faigin on Shari Rabin’s Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America It was the opinion of Edwards, that the
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