Robin Darling Young

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture – New Testament II: Mark.Edited by Thomas C. Oden and Christopher A. Hall.Inter Varsity. 317 pp. $39.99Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture – New Testament VI: RomansEdited by Gerald Bray.Inter Varsity. 440 pp. $39.99Reading Scripture with the . . . . Continue Reading »

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe By John Boswell Villard Books. 412 pp. $25 Ancient in origin, same-sex unions blessed in the Church occur quietly to this day. So says John Boswell, Professor of Medieval History at Yale University and the author of this new and lavishly publicized book. It may . . . . Continue Reading »

The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought by Robert L. Wilken Yale University Press, 448 pages, $35 Twice in the history of the region have Christians controlled Palestine: first during the height of the Christian Roman imperium, from the early fourth through the early . . . . Continue Reading »

When we read every day of the affairs of some medieval institution—the papacy, the British Parliament, the rabbinate, or the Deir ul-Islam—we are looking into the Middle . . . . Continue Reading »

John McManners contributes to the ancient effort to tell the story of the . . . . Continue Reading »