Augustine’s tortured recognition that involuntary arousal was an inescapable presence—not only in conjugal lovemaking but also in what he calls the “very […]
What liberal “elites” — believers and nonbelievers — find objectionable is not religion, but rather a partisan twist on religious literacy that […]
Universalist ideas were central to Jewish authors living in the Second Temple period, and to the readers who read and circulated these […]
We tend to think of the consecutive developments of Greek philosophy, normative Judaism, and early Christianity as being exclusive to one another. […]
Many Jews in the Second Temple period believed that Israel shares a special relationship with God, and at the same time, that […]
Scholars who have argued that early Christians were influenced by Stoic thought miss a key link: early Christians were influenced by contemporary […]
Universalism has nothing to do with welcoming converts into one’s faith community, which actually runs counter to universalism. The concept of conversion […]
This deinstitutionalization of the faith has occurred alongside its politicization. It’s hard to believe that in 1976, evangelicals helped deliver the White […]
The various literatures relevant to Judaism and Christianity are so bulky and so diverse and so complex that no one person can […]
It seems that love of the political enemy prompted Christianity to identify with those who had condemned and killed Jesus: it totally […]
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