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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theology
A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians
Tom Millay reviews Anthony Domestico’s Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist
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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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Unintended Consequences: How the Reformation Expanded Theology
Christopher Ocker on how the Reformation changed theology It all began with propositions “for a disputation for the sake of disclosing the power
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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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