Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness by richard b. hays baylor, 177 pages, $34.95 I n the heady days of the early Christian Church, Marcion was considered a very dangerous man. In the second half of the second century, bishops and theologians all over the Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition by gary a. anderson yale, 232 pages, $30 In the last few years there has been a subtle shift in our social and political discourse. While an earlier generation commenced a War on Poverty, we now deploy our military metaphors in the fight for . . . . Continue Reading »
Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture, 1300–1700 by scott w. hahn and benjamin wiker crossroad, 624 pages, $59.95 What was once a bold and disciplined endeavor to recover the truth of the Scriptures had become, argued Cardinal Joseph . . . . Continue Reading »
Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages by Ian Christopher Levy University of Notre Dame, 332 pages, $38 As long as the Church has endured, the “quest for authority” has been a problematic enterprise. Christians have always agreed that the Scriptures are . . . . Continue Reading »
At the center of Alexander Payne’s moral vision stands the Little Human Being. His clever, contemporary comedies”most recently About Schmidt , Sideways , and The Descendents ”are sympathetic to human fragility and yet not sentimental, honest about moral weakness but not cynical. . . . . Continue Reading »
“I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship by Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg Harvard, 392 pages, $35 Anthony Grafton, professor of history at Princeton University and president of the American Historical . . . . Continue Reading »
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