In a Poetry magazine review of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Second Edition) , Michael Robbins questions the categories of “avant garde” and “mainstream” with respect to poetry. The Norton volume and those anthologies like it are “predicated upon the . . . . Continue Reading »
I examine Paul’s warnings against greed and discontentment at the Trinity House site today. . . . . Continue Reading »
Apocalyptic theology has had at least a century-long history, explains Joshua Davis in the introduction to Apocalyptic and the Future of Theology: With and Beyond J. Louis Martyn (Cascade, 2012). Since 1914, we have seen “young, brilliant, brash, and no doubt highly ambitious” . . . . Continue Reading »
More from Peter Brown, this from a review of Bowerstock’s Empires in Collision in Late Antiquity : “Bowersock shows, through a combination of archaeological and textual evidence, that the short-lived Sassanian conquest of the Middle East did not leave the former provinces of East Rome . . . . Continue Reading »
Reviewing GW Bowerstock’s The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam at the NYRB , Peter Brown points to the “religious wars” between Christian Rome and Persia that provided the context for the rise of Islam: “Bowersock also shows how the two great empires of the . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’re looking for Marxist sacramental theology , check out the Trinity House site this morning. . . . . Continue Reading »
The heroic story of Mandel’s and the ANC’s struggle against apartheid is, Stephen Ellis thinks, mythological. In External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990 , he sets out to dispel the myth. Tom Lodge’s TLS review summarizes some of his findings: “ANC leaders were by no . . . . Continue Reading »
From David Hawkes’s TLS review of Landon Storrs’s The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left , Storrs strikes a rare balance on the contested history of McCarthy and the HUAC. On the one hand, Storrs argues that the targets were often social democrats rather than . . . . Continue Reading »
Theories of the atonement are usually categorized as “objectivist” or “subjectivist.” Objective theories claim that the death of Jesus paid for sin and therefore reconciled God and man. Subjective theories claim that the real action of the atonement isn’t in the event . . . . Continue Reading »
Is the Servant of the Lord in Isaiah collective (Israel or a faithful remnant) or individual (a prophet or Messiah)? Commentators have chosen sides, but Hans-Judgen Hermisson (in The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 53 in Jewish and Christian Sources , 20) says that it’s a bad question. The point of . . . . Continue Reading »
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