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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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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“The Rights and Wrongs of Resistance”: Shakespeare and Politics
Andrew S. Brown on Peter Lake’s How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage On February 7, 1601, William Shakespeare was enlisted into a
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The Poetry of Divinity: Defending Religious Poetry
Tom Millay reviews Kevin Hart’s Poetry and Revelation: For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry Kevin Hart is not one to boast. Nothing in
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Discoveries in the Ethiopian Desert
Exploring the Ancient Gospels of Ethiopia It’s not every day that scholars discover new Bible manuscripts from the ancient world. It’s even rarer
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