In early June, the Claremont School of Theology announced that it would merge with its local Jewish and Muslim counterparts to form an inter-religious university this coming fall. Philip Clayton...
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Christian Moderns
An absence of belief?
by Danilyn Rutherford
First, a disclosure: this book and I go way back. When it comes to Webb Keane’s scholarship, I’m what the marketing experts would call an early adopter. I first met...
A Secular Age
The burden of the great divide
by Tomoko MasuzawaWith the prevalence of voices casting doubts and aspersions on the so-called secularization thesis, we might imagine that the familiar story of the progress of Western modernity qua secularity is...
here & there
A fairy tale cathedral
by Amanda KaplanThe Assumption of the Virgin does not just mark Mary’s ascent to heaven, but also an annual pilgrimage to one of France’s oldest churches located in one of France’s oldest...
A Secular Age
Commentaries on our age
by Nancy LeveneIt is an honor to review Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, the volume of essays on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, edited by Craig Calhoun, Michael Warner, and...
Is this all there is
For the looking
by Omri Elisha
The Great American Eclipse of 2017 had all the trappings of a national revival. In a time of heightened uncertainty, acrimony, and fear, millions flocked to seek solace and possibly...
Couture and the death of the real: A response to Heavenly Bodies
The American romance of the not-so-little black dress
Religions and their publics
Making a biblical theme park
by James S. BieloArk Encounter will be a $150 million biblical theme park, scheduled to open in summer 2016. Set on 800 acres of Kentucky rolling hills, 40 miles south of Cincinnati, the...
Book reviews
For God and Globe
by Gene Zubovich...University Press, 1997). Thompson sees things differently. The Christian realism of Reinhold Niebur was “a qualification within Christian internationalism,” he argues. Thompson shows that the common ground Protestant internationalists shared...