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Mark of the Beast
In a 1991 article in the Tyndale Bulletin, Edwin Judge reviews the symbolic resonances of the phrase…
Anthropology and the Bible
In an essay on atonement in the Jewish Studies Quarterly from the early 1990s, Mary Douglas explains…
A Muted Conversation on Traditional Marriage
Very well, Father, I’ll go to the March for Marriage. I must admit, I was somewhat chagrined…
The Medicine Show Continues
When I first started referring to the execrable founder of Wallbuilders as The David Barton Traveling Medicine Show,…
First Links — 5.8.15
Rowan Williams: Can We Ever Be In Charge of Our Own Lives? Rowan Williams, The New Statesman…
The Imperialism of Liberal Reason
“The ambition of the liberal political philosopher,” writes Paul Kahn (Putting Liberalism in its Place, 120), is…
Overcoming the Overcoming of Metaphysics
Durkheim, on John Milbank’s reading (Theology and Social Theory, 63-4), attempted to socialize Kant. Comte had already…
Art of the Feud
In his Bloodtaking and Peacemaking (180-1), his study of Icelandic society, William Ian Miller distinguishes between feuds and…
Blind Slayer
Lamech’s song in Genesis 4 is today read as a taunt and a warning. “I have killed…
Crusoe in God’s World
Partly a rehabilitation of Ian Watts’s Rise of the Novel, partly a theological deepening of Watts’s thesis,…
Chicken Soup for the Soulless
The Inspirational Atheist: Wise Words on the Wonder and Meaning of Life edited by buzzy jackson plume,…
First Links — 5.7.15
Life in the Public Square Randy Boyagoda, Michael W. Higgins, Molly Worthen, CBC radio Pope Francis suggests…
Beyond Atonement?
Ted Grimsrud’s Instead of Atonement attempts to tells the “Bible’s salvation story” without appeal to the “logic of…
Family and sex
In The Anti-social Family, recently republished by Verso, Michele Barrett and Mary McIntosh lament that, for all the…
Shakespeare’s Religious Language
R. Chris Hassel has compiled a dictionary of every religion-related work he could find in Shakespeare’s plays…
