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Changing God’s Mind
The Widening of God’s Mercy:Sexuality Within the Biblical Storyby christopher b. hays and richard b. haysyale university, 288 pages, $28 Over the course of a long and fruitful career,...
Ancient Patterns of Prayer
Today, we tend to think of prayer as an individual activity, a chance to talk to God one-on-one. But in each of the three Abrahamic faiths, prayer has traditionally...
The Church’s Book
The Bible in a Disenchanted Age: The Enduring Possibility of Christian Faithby r. w. l. moberlybaker, 240 pages, $24.99 The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible...
Figure It In
Time and the Word:Figural Reading of the Christian Scripturesby ephraim radnereerdmans, 326 pages, $50 Moderns are accustomed to taking premodern interpretations of the Bible to be products of a...
All Things to All People
Paul as a Problem in History and Culture: The Apostle and His Critics through the Centuriesby patrick gray baker, 274 pages, $32.99 Albert Schweitzer once remarked that the quest...
Go Figure
Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness by richard b. hays baylor, 177 pages, $34.95 I n the heady days of the early Christian Church, Marcion was...
The Consolation of Philology
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by james turner princeton, 576 pages, $35 She appeared to him in the darkest of times. In the early part of...
Treasury in Heaven
Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition by gary a. anderson yale, 232 pages, $30 In the last few years there has been a subtle shift...
Criticism’s Limits
Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture, 1300–1700 by scott w. hahn and benjamin wiker crossroad, 624 pages, $59.95 What was once a...
Some Assembly Required
Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages by Ian Christopher Levy University of Notre Dame, 332 pages, $38 As long as the...
Payne’s Books of Job
At the center of Alexander Payne’s moral vision stands the Little Human Being. His clever, contemporary comedies—most recently About Schmidt, Sideways, and The Descendants—are sympathetic to human fragility and...
A Pious Scholar
“I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship by Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg Harvard, 392 pages, $35 Anthony...
