Since the late nineteenth century religious studies has been conflicted by multiple, often mutually agonistic, means of study. The rise of biblical criticism, and historical criticism, has…
This chapter will make two main points regarding lectures in religious studies (RS) courses at non-confessional universities and colleges. First, it will reimagine the lecture space and…
As “discourse about God,” “reasoning about God,” or “the science of God,” theology has always had pride of place in societies of strong religious faith—in the Middle…
Saint Augustine of Hippo lived a life in tension. Tossed about by the caprices of circumstance, wracked with intellectual doubt and inward temptation, his soul was in…
l’uomo nello stato bestiale ama solamente la sua salvezza (in his beastly state, man loves solely his salvation/safety)[1] In the “Of God’s Will” (De voluntate Dei) section…
The idea of inherent human dignity has come to play a prominent role in contemporary culture. A commonplace, now, in political discourse and journalism, it has long…
If I could, I surely would stand on the rock where Moses stood. I don’t know which rock the singer had in mind. The great rocky crags…
John 9 offers us the memorable “parable” of the blind saved by Jesus.[1] The savior teaches us that the saved man was blind from birth “so that…
Education cannot occur where equality is taken as the preeminent moral virtue, where the past is rejected as hopelessly morally compromised, and when materialism is adopted as…