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Theology in Division
Level with me—you’re Catholic, right? I get this question a lot—from students, folks at church, academic colleagues. I teach theology at a Stone–Campbellite university in west Texas. My friends...
The Church in the Immanent Frame
Churches and the Crisis of Decline:A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Ageby andrew rootbaker academic, 320 pages, $44.99 If there is one thing everyone agrees about in America, it...
Marked by Death
We are a people marked by death. The biblical story begins and ends with death. The Scriptures open with Adam’s transgression in the Garden of Eden, for which the...
Covidtide Triduum
Though the gospel is always the same, its audience is not. The evangelical declaration—Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again—finds different ears each time it is...
The Circumcision of Abraham’s God
About twelve centuries ago, the Byzantine monk St. Theodore the Studite wrote a series of polemics against the iconoclasts—those who persisted, even after the second council of Nicaea, in...