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Living Toward Death
One of the crucial differences is the role of death. According to Heidel (Babylonian Genesis, 137-8), “The…
Numismatic Noah
Alexander Heidel (Babylonian Genesis, 235) notes that the word for “ark” in Greek accounts of the flood…
Nyssa on Divine Personhood
Thomas McCall acknowledegs in his Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? that patristic and medieval writers weren’t “fond of such…
Evangelical Sex
Amy DeRogatis begins her study of Evangelical ideals of sex, Saving Sex, by recounting Texas Pastor Ed Young’s…
Extreme
Extreme by Emma Barrett and Paul Martin “examines extraordinary human endeavour and the psychological qualities that underpin…
Figuring History
Timothy Furry’s Allegorizing History is a careful, engaging study of the Venerable Bede’s understanding of history, and of…
Artist-Prophet
As the title suggests, Miles Unger’s Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces tells the life story of Michelangelo…
Society of Jesus
John O’Malley’s The Jesuits tells the complex story of the author’s order in a brief 160 pages. The…
Social Trinitarian Pushback
Social trinitarianism has been on its heels in recent years, but in a bracing article in IJST,…
Bashing Augustine Bashers
Jenson gives a wonderfully curmudgeonly riposte to the critics of critics of Augustine (The Theology of Colin…
Was Noah Good?
Genesis 6:8 says that Noah “found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.” In the following verse, we’re…
Ars moriendi
Despite the lower mortality rates and longer life spans of the postmodern condition, the reality of death…
Winged
Typically, wings in the Bible are appendages of birds (Genesis 1:21), so much so that “winged-thing” (substantive…
Etymologizing the Gods
Encyclopedic Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely-read early Christian writers. His analysis of ancient…
Onan in History
According Thomas Laqueur’s 2004 Solitary Sex, masturbation wasn’t a major concern in sexual ethics until fairly recently. Stephen…
