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Texts Have Consequences
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture – New Testament II: Mark.Edited by Thomas C. Oden and Christopher A. Hall.Inter Varsity. 317 pp. $39.99 Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture – New Testament...
Gay Marriage: Reimaging Church History
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe By John Boswell Villard Books. 412 pp. $25 Ancient in origin, same-sex unions blessed in the Church occur quietly to this day. So says...
The Land Called Holy
The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought by Robert L. Wilken Yale University Press, 448 pages, $35 Twice in the history of the region have Christians...
Back to Our Future
Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century by Norman F. Cantor William Morrow, 477 pages, $28 When we read...
Writing Christian History
The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity edited by John McManners Oxford University Press, 724 pages, $45 This is a handsome book, and a weighty one, too, at over seven...
