One year into Francis’s papacy, many observers—both inside and outside the Catholic community—are still holding their breath. He has certainly…
Catholicism
Contents and discontents of (post)modernity
The Unintended Reformation is an unusual work of history in deliberately focusing as much on the present as on the…
CFP: Rethinking Political Catholicism
On May 22-23, 2014, John Cabot University, as part of its Summer Institute for Religion and Global Politics will host…
Historical arguments and omissions
A number of the forum reviewers raise objections to various aspects of the historical arguments in The Unintended Reformation. Others…
Genre, method, and assumptions
More than 60 reviews of The Unintended Reformation have appeared since January 2012, including forums in four journals (Historically Speaking, Church…
A changing papacy?
On December 11, Time Magazine named Pope Francis its 2013 “Person of the Year.” The award, according to Time, seeks to honor the…
Beyond the Catholic-Protestant divide
The epigraph of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation comes from an essay that Jacques Maritain wrote for the Review of…
History without hermeneutics: Brad Gregory’s unintended modernity
I would like to draw attention to three aspects of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, a book whose courage and…
What is religion in China? A brief history
The complex and ever-changing relationship between the Chinese state and the nation’s religions stretches back thousands of years. While the…
Secular supercessionism and alternative modernity
Recent years have seen the resurgence of “metahistories” that seek to provide a single complex narrative of seemingly disparate events…