Did the mainline church pave the way for Christian nationalism?
Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood plumb history to show how the Protestant mainline has intertwined church and state interests.
A Lincoln parable
Civil War historian Allen Guelzo documents Lincoln’s faith—not in God but in the American experiment.
Fake news at church
Three new books investigate how misinformation shapes evangelicals—and propose better ways to reason together.
Teaching theology in anxious times
“In God’s world, there are always new possibilities—some of which reside in things we find threatening.”
Douglas Ottati’s liberal piety
The theologian starts by recognizing that we know enough to live fully in response to God’s grace.
The New Holy Wars, by Robert H. Nelson
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out." So complained 18th-century French philosopher Denis Diderot....
God and Globalization, Volume 4: Globalization and Grace
In the first century St. Paul believed that God’s divinity was everywhere manifest and nowhere fully heeded....
Jesus and Yahweh
Yale’s distinguished literary critic and more-than-amateur, but less-than-professional religionist Harold Bloom treats readers to a profoundly ...
Politics and piety
God's Rule: The Politics of the World Religions. Edited by Jacob Neusner. Georgetown University Press, 281 pp., $29.95....