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The Priority of the Political: Politics Determines the Possibilities of Islam – by Mohammad H. Fadel

August 22, 2016August 22, 2016

The second essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Chapter 2 of “What is Islam?” is primarily a deconstructive project ... [Read More]

Renewing the Heart of Systematic Theology – By Brad East

August 1, 2016August 2, 2016

Brad East on Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology, vol. 1 Academics love stories of decline, especially about themselves. But academic theologians may love them ... [Read More]

MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 3) by Sarah E. Rollens

June 20, 2016June 20, 2016

By Sarah E. Rollens On July 17, the NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion at UVa wrapped up. I ... [Read More]

The Death of God, Again by Ed Simon

May 10, 2016May 10, 2016

The fullest affirmation of God comes in His denial. A young, attractive blonde woman with a fashionable pixie haircut sits anxiously in the ... [Read More]

Modernity and Mineness – By Andrew Dole

April 11, 2016April 12, 2016

Andrew Dole on Kevin Hector’s Theological Project of Modernism My life revolves around a variety of projects. Some are mostly under my control: ... [Read More]

First Impressions #78: Benjamin Sommer on Revelation and Authority in Judaism

March 28, 2016April 5, 2016

Can the religious texts and traditions of Judaism be authoritative and sacred while also being human and sometimes fallible? Joseph Ryan Kelly talks ... [Read More]

God’s Recovery – By Gregory W. Lee

October 27, 2015October 27, 2015

Gregory W. Lee on Khaled Anatolios’ Retrieving Nicaea Debates regarding the doctrine of the Trinity are often presented as a classic example of ... [Read More]

MRBlog | Obama, Grace, and Theology in Action

June 29, 2015

By Thomas J. Whitley President Obama did not simply deliver the eulogy at Reverend and SC State Senator Clementa Pinckney’s funeral service. President ... [Read More]

MRBlog | Evangelicals and the LGBTQ Question: What’s Really Going On?

June 16, 2015June 16, 2015

By Greg Carey Recently we’ve seen one evangelical leader after another extend a full welcome to LGBTQ folk in the church’s life ... [Read More]

Theology and the University: A Lover’s Quarrel – Jonathan D. Teubner

May 26, 2015May 26, 2015

Jonathan D. Teubner on Johannes Zachhuber’s Theology as Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany “A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution,” ... [Read More]