Letting Augustine be Augustine
How to capture the urgency of Confessions? New translations by Sarah Ruden and Peter Constantine offer very different approaches.
Theology
I routinely saw patients who were racist, sexist, demanding, and cruel. They were also afraid, exhausted, in pain, and helpless.
If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.
Theodicy in real life
William Abraham's theological affirmations of faith are shadowed by a persistent question: Why don't they work?
Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.
The league—and many fans—treat them as cogs without agency.
Will the real fundamentalists please stand up?
What counts as fundamentalism? David Harrington Watt and Sathianathan Clarke give contrasting answers.
The Red Sea, the baptistery, and the birth canal
Is Jamie Quatro’s novel really about marital infidelity?
Maybe Fire Sermon is more fundamentally a parable about religion.
Cone was a profoundly biblical thinker. His Christology captured my imagination.
How Christian was Meister Eckhart?
The eccentric preacher's ideas hover between God's absolute otherness and God's self-revelation in Christ.
Antiblackness is outrageous, but it does not have the last word.
Take & read: New books in theology
Theology lives in the space between apocalypticism and Christian Platonism.
Take & read: New books in ethics
What does hope look like in the face of racism?
Radical orthodoxy steps into the pulpit
The movement's plucky proponents have been known for their philosophy more than their preaching. Until now.
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