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Christian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Christianity about their new books.
April 13, 2024
Christ's Enthronement at God's Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context
How did Psalm 110:1 become so widely used as a messianic prooftext in the New Testament and early Christianity? Part of the explanation may be related…
April 13, 2024
Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
In Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Jae Han investigates how various Late Antique Near Eastern communities—Je…
April 11, 2024
Catholic in Palestine (with Fr Firas Abedrabbo)
There have been Christians in the Holy Land for two thousand years; “we are the first church,” says Father Firas Abedrabbo who is from Bethlehem and w…
April 8, 2024
On Amistà
Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late mediaeval Christian so…
April 6, 2024
The Jesuits
In The Jesuits: A Thematic History (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2023), Claudio Ferlan provides an exploration of the tradition of the Society of Jesu…
April 3, 2024
Our Trespasses
Greg Jarrell's book Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods (Fortress Press, 2024) uncovers how race, geography, polic…
April 3, 2024
Unfinished Christians
What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non-elite men and women, enslaved…
April 2, 2024
The Sexual Politics of Empire
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side ac…
April 2, 2024
Between Christian and Jew
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious inter…
April 1, 2024
Righting the American Dream
After two years in the White House, an aging and increasingly unpopular Ronald Reagan looked like a one-term president, but in 1983 something changed.…
March 28, 2024
The Wood Between the Worlds (with Brian Zahnd)
For Christians, the central event in history and in universe is the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. This killing of God …
March 26, 2024
Political Theology of International Order
Is contemporary international order truly a secular arrangement? Theorists of international relations typically adhere to a narrative that portrays th…
March 24, 2024
Buffalo Bill and the Mormons
In this never-before-told history of Buffalo Bill and the Mormons, Brent M. Rogers presents the intersections in the epic histories of William F. "Buf…
March 24, 2024
Missionary Diplomacy
Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations (Cornell University Press, 2024) illuminates the crucial place of rel…
March 17, 2024
Characters and Characterization in the Book of Judges
Characters and characterization are a key ingredient for interpreting the Bible, and perhaps no other book in the Bible is so full of challenging and …
March 13, 2024
The Gospel of Church
In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm. "Socialism," he wrote, "has become a disti…
March 11, 2024
Nationalisation of the Sacred
The Eastern Orthodox Churches in post-communist Eastern Europe are embroiled in long-running conflicts over ownership of territory, saints, sites, nat…
March 4, 2024
The Jewish Annotated New Testament
First published in 2011, The Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford UP, 2017) was a groundbreaking work, bringing the New Testament's Jewish backgroun…
March 2, 2024
Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies
Why do some devout Christians support authoritarian leaders who threaten the very democracies that protect religious freedoms? The resounding suppor…