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BRIAN STANLEY | Is the world becoming more secular?...

M. EUGENE BORING | Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes a bit disconcerted to be reminded that the New Testament is primarily a collection of letters...

FERNANDE HÖLSCHER | Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon in Greek religion...

IAN CHRISTOPHER LEVY | The Late Middle Ages witnessed a narrowing of the divide that had traditionally separated the clerical and lay estates throughout much of the medieval period...

JAMES CARLETON PAGET | F.C. Baur is regarded as the founder of the modern study of Christian origins and, in particular, of the New Testament...

TODD M. BRENNEMAN | Much of the attention paid to contemporary evangelicalism in the United States has focused on the political activity of evangelicals who have energetically supported conservative causes...

FRANS VAN LIERE | Biblical hermeneutics is the key to understanding the Reformation in the sixteenth century...

NINA CAPUTO | The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the one Augustine applied in his Confessions, tracing the protagonist’s struggles to overcome internal weakness or external challenges that impede their effort to live a good and moral life...

FRANCIS J. CAPONI | Nagel is an atheist and makes it clear that he is speaking of a wholly natural teleology: no designers need apply...

HARRIET MURAV | One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began his ethnographic expeditions into the Russian Pale of Settlement, the western and southern area of Russia in which most of the world’s Jews lived...

PETER MARTENS | Anyone with a smattering of training in religion or philosophy knows at least two things about Origen (ca. 184-253 CE): he castrated himself, and he was condemned as a heretic of the Christian church...

GORAZD KOCIJANČIČ | At the end of the 1980s Jacques Derrida gave a lecture in Jerusalem on negative theology...