Grandpa Milbank
A review of John Milbank and Adrian Pabst’s The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future. The afternoon that I began reading
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theology
Jesus the Aryan
Susannah Heschel on the Reformation’s Troubling Legacy “Our Volk, which stands above all else in a struggle against the satanic powers of world
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A Star in the East: Chinese Theology
First Impressions #103: Chloë Starr on Chinese Theology While Christianity has had a long history in China, only in the past century has Chinese
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MRBlog | Is Hillary Clinton a Heretic?
By Thomas J. Whitley Hillary Clinton is a heretic. Or, at least this is what CNN’s Religion Editor Daniel Burke would have
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The Priority of the Political: Politics Determines the Possibilities of Islam – by Mohammad H. Fadel
The second essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Chapter 2 of “What is Islam?” is primarily a deconstructive project
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Renewing the Heart of Systematic Theology – By Brad East
Brad East on Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology, vol. 1 Academics love stories of decline, especially about themselves. But academic theologians may love them
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 3) by Sarah E. Rollens
By Sarah E. Rollens On July 17, the NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion at UVa wrapped up. I
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The Death of God, Again by Ed Simon
The fullest affirmation of God comes in His denial. A young, attractive blonde woman with a fashionable pixie haircut sits anxiously in the
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Modernity and Mineness – By Andrew Dole
Andrew Dole on Kevin Hector’s Theological Project of Modernism My life revolves around a variety of projects. Some are mostly under my control:
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First Impressions #78: Benjamin Sommer on Revelation and Authority in Judaism
Can the religious texts and traditions of Judaism be authoritative and sacred while also being human and sometimes fallible? Joseph Ryan Kelly talks
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