Margaret R. Miles
Margaret R. Miles is professor emerita of historical theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Beyond the Centaur: Imagining the Intelligent Body.
Saint or devil incarnate?
Empress Theodora is mainly known through the writings of a man who hated her. But there's more to her story.
Why give alms?
Belief in the incarnation places suffering bodies within the realm of Christian responsibility.
The mysteries of young Augustine
Confessions is not primarily about Augustine at all; it is about God’s activity in the particularity of Augustine’s life.
The Many Faces of Christ, by Philip Jenkins
Phil Jenkins's abundant evidence gives lie to the traditional assumption that all but the four canonical Gospels were effectively squelched in the fourth century.
Flesh Made Word, by Emily A. Holmes
Emily Holmes endeavors, with the help of French feminist theories, to understand several of the medieval mystics who are most alien to 21st-century religious sensibilities.
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