One of the largest religious schisms in American history has occurred in the last few years. Around one quarter of the 30,000…
They tell the Bible so: On hermeneutical determinism
historiography
The discipline of Radio Mind
Pamela Klassen skillfully leads readers to consider important underlying and interconnected concerns throughout The Story of Radio Mind, including occasions…
Roots and routes of rights
Over the past four decades, a cottage industry of important new scholarship has emerged dedicated to the history of rights…
eBay and the historical imagination
Some seek God in algorithms. Others seek a kind of divinity in the pastness of the past. The former seek…
Futures of the American Religious Past
On January 3, 2015, as part of the winter meeting of American Society for Church History, four interlocutors will speak…
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…
Beyond supersessionist stories?
Brad Gregory’s monumental and erudite book has yielded a wide range of reactions. Highly appreciative remarks (especially from the Catholic…
The return of sacred history
Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is an expansively ambitious work. Indeed, its aim is to provide nothing less than an “explanation…
Mark Lilla reviews The Unintended Reformation
Over at The New Republic, Mark Lilla reviews historian Brad S. Gregory's latest book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution…
Man dies again!
"Man dies again.” Or so might one entitle a tabloid version of Stefanos Geroulanos’s excellent work on the history of…