The Pale Galilean: Ernest Renan, Jesus, and Modern History
Will Theiss on France’s greatest historian In 1884, General Charles Gordon, the bumbling British imperialist who had earned his fame in China, was
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The Once and Future Mainline College
Paul W. Gleason reviews Robert Benne’s Keeping the Soul in Christian Higher Education By now, the demographic decline of the Protestant mainline churches
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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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Magic and Science in Medieval Ashkenaz
Dana Fishkin reviews David Shyovitz’s A Remembrance of His Wonders The study of medieval Jewish history often yields examples of beliefs, practices, conventions or
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Buddhist Spaces: Beyond Secularity
Eric Huntington Reviews Thomas McDaniel’s Architects of Buddhist Leisure Justin Thomas McDaniel’s new book, Architects of Buddhist Leisure, seeks to demolish conceptual barriers
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Naked Luther: The Politics of Culture in Three Early Images of Luther
Brian Cummings on the iconography of the reformer Images of Martin Luther abound in his anniversary year, and they tend to conform to
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Revelation and Authority: A Forum
Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago) John C. Cavadini (University of Notre Dame) Jon D. Levenson (Harvard University) Benjamin Sommer (The Jewish Theological Seminary)
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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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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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