Well-known ethicist and scholar Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago recently passed away on August 11, 2013.
On the passing of Jean Bethke Elshtain
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CFP: Varieties of Understanding
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CFP: The Religious Turn: Secular and Sacred Engagements in Literature and Theory
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John Hick (1922 – 2012)
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The cry for immanence
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In seeking to make sense of modernity in the classical tradition of sociology as a field, the body of Robert…
A response to critics
I knew that my new book, Political Theology, would be controversial. It covers a lot of ground; it produces odd…