Thomas Pfau has created a brand new narrative, not a scholarly book. In the best Christian traditio renovanda (renewing tradition),…
Losing sight of reason
modernity
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…
The secular in non-Western societies
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the wider Islamist movement of which it is an instance, are in many ways…
Historical arguments and omissions
A number of the forum reviewers raise objections to various aspects of the historical arguments in The Unintended Reformation. Others…
Modernity, enchantment, and Fictionalism
The stern visage of Max Weber looms over discussions of modernity and enchantment, as does the sunnier countenance of Charles…
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…
Buddhism in context
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman interviews David McMahan, scholar of Buddhism and modernity, and author of The…
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…
Beyond supersessionist stories?
Brad Gregory’s monumental and erudite book has yielded a wide range of reactions. Highly appreciative remarks (especially from the Catholic…
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…