Christian Humanist Profiles 38: Chris Celenza on Machiavelli
Old Nick they called him, and he earned himself a spot on the earliest versions of the earliest versions of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum with his treatise The Prince. History…
Philosophy, Theology, Literature, and Other Things Human Beings Do Well
Old Nick they called him, and he earned himself a spot on the earliest versions of the earliest versions of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum with his treatise The Prince. History…
The Middle Ages By Johannes Fried (trans. Peter Lewis) 632 pp. Harvard University Press. $35.00 Johannes Fried saves the programmatic aim of his book for the last chapter, but I’ll begin…
Having started our series with one historical theologian who helped write Reclaiming Pietism: Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition, it only makes sense that we continue the theme this week, when we’re joined…
Christ Actually: The Son of God for a Secular Age By James Carroll 284 pp. Viking Penguin. $30.00 James Carroll tells a story of two wars against the Jews, two…
Gene Simmons: “Rock Is Finally Dead” The Parable of the Madman from The Gay Science might seem a strange partner for a Gene Simmons interview, but the latter made me think of…
Michial Farmer leads a discussion with Nathan Gilmour and a very ill David Grubbs on the peculiarly modern ecosystem of suburbia. Listen and hear why we hate American Beauty, what sorts…
Students had been saying it for years, but it wasn’t until this semester that I started wondering what it really means when students say I’m not a “real” English professor. Most…
Another teaching semester is about to ramp up, and as is often the case, I have some Platonic dialogues lined up to teach. I’ve taught at least one dialogue in …
Introductions, a welcome, and an apology Knowing Mary as theotokos Lots of theologians have talked about her role So have lots of feminists Mary’s feast days make this discussion a…
Sorry for the delay on this! Thanks for your patience, listeners! Knowing How we get from the first wave to the second “One is not born a woman, but…
Knowing Waves of Feminism The Seneca Falls Convention The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments Suffrage and Abolition Racism within the movement Suffrage, Temperance, and the WCTU Reading Iron Jawed Angels.…
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan 272 pp. Random House. $27.00. I’ll say this up front: New Testament Studies is a hard discipline. Its difficulty comes…
General Introduction – A busy summer – How we spent our summer vacations – Three big announcements The Middle Ages and Antiquity – The Decline and Fall of the Roman…
With the brief history of hermeneutical thinking in the book, Gadamer turns in this section of Truth and Method to constructing a hermeneutics that takes seriously the thrown-and-projected nature of…
I’ve often told people who aspire to graduate school in Biblical studies or theology that an English major might just serve them better than a Bachelor’s degree in ministry. Most…