The Revd Prof Andrew Davison is the Starbridge Professor of Theology and Natural Science, holding the professorship endowed by the novelist Susan Howatch.…
Between 2012 and 2014, I held a two-year Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (WT096499AIA) for a project on women surgeons in Britain, 1860-1918.…
Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce that it will publish New Blackfriars from January 2024, in partnership with The Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers.…
The CDC reports that more than 1 in 2 women in the US have experienced sexual violence. As the ecclesial body of Christ, the church has both a graced capacity through the power of the Holy Spirit and a moral responsibility to act…
Attuning Job with modern poetry of disability offers an opportunity to unseat some of the easy (or ableist) connections between Job and disability and to explore the diversity of our embodied connections with one another and with God.
Critical Pakistan Studies will be the first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its peopleJournal will be interdisciplinary and open accessAims to give the widest possible understanding of Pakistan, past, and present Cambridge University Press is to publish the world’s first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its people.…
The Roman Catholic Church has, in most historical and theological analyses, had a rather hostile relationship to liberal modernity, despite the fact that the church helped to produce the modern world and the thought patterns that continue to govern it.
This article contributes to the project of expressing the meaning of the kingdom of God by drawing on the practical and theoretical work of the Zapatistas as a theological mediation.
For more than a year now, on every weekday at noon, academics at Boğaziçi University gather in the main courtyard for a silent vigil turning their backs against the Rector’s Building carrying posters demanding the removal of the appointed rector and his appointees, the reinstitution of rectorate elections and the annulment of arbitrary decisions such as the opening of new programs.…
Since the beginning of 2022, Turkey has witnessed an unexpected strike wave. The strike by couriers at Trendyol, an e-commerce platform bought by Alibaba in 2018, has attracted the most public attention.…
How did a Scottish Catholic bishop who as a young man was imprisoned for participating in the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion help his community enter mainstream political culture? By holding fast to the very principles that formed the religious basis of Jacobitism.
Despite the fact that the leaders of the current governing alliance (Cumhur İttifakı– People’s Alliance) deny the possibility of a snap election, my short answer to the question in the title is “yes.”…
It is common to view Christian and Jewish traditions as conflicting dramatically in their attitude towards sexuality. This view is supported by the fact that Catholic traditions promote celibacy as a religious ideal, while Jewish traditions place marriage and procreation as one of the highest ethical values.…
I can smell when it’s going to snow. A peculiar statement by all accounts, but for one who was reared in Bedford, Massachusetts—a town that borders Concord—snow is something of a birthright. …
A Critical Analysis and Evaluation of the Epicleses in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite Jos Moons, SJ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Tilburg University The significance of the Second Vatican Council consists, among other things, of an incipient and unfinished renewal of awareness of the Holy Spirit.…
Excerpted from Pedagogical Roundtable “Teaching Antiracism” with Joseph Flipper (Bellarmine University) and Christopher Pramuk (Regis University). People often imagine the university as an institution uniquely positioned for antiracism.…
1. Crypto is the Data Money, Blockchain is the Accounting System It is wrong to think that Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are mere digital monies.…
After decades of progressive reforms, since the early 2010s, Turkey has enacted a series of rollbacks on women’s rights and gender equality.…
People facing plague and quarantine in early modern Europe also turned to astrologers. But rather than being chastised for supporting a ‘pseudoscience’, these people were more likely to be reprimanded for engaging with paganism.
In a recent article for the APSR, Dr. Cécile Laborde (University of Oxford) examines the rise of the Hindu Nationalist BJP in India and its effects on the secular Indian state.…
The autonomy of universities from politics and the executive branch may sometimes be taken for granted. For this reason, it is worth emphasizing why that autonomy is so important.…
Boğaziçi University Protests and State Homophobia in Turkey
Until 6th February 2021 enjoy free access to Joel Mayward’s full paper on The Fantastic of the Everyday: Re-Forming Definitions of Cinematic Parables with Paul Ricoeur, published in Horizons, Volume 47 Issue 2 Ricoeur states that parables potentially contain several theologies, so revisiting these films may generate fresh theological insights and meanings.…
From the Review Symposium on Faith and Evolution: A Grace-Filled Naturalism by Roger Haight, SJ. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2019; xiii + 264 pages; $30.00), published in Horizons, Volume 47 Issue 2Access this paper here for free until 18th January 2021 In his final chapter, “What Can We Hope For?,”…
Reprinted with permission of Harvard Divinity School. One of the oldest scholarly theological journals in the United States has a new editor.…
Jews and Christians are both united and divided by the parts of the Bible that they hold in common. Many see Paul’s innovative, at times “counter” readings of the Hebrew Bible as standing at the beginning of the process that led to the eventual separation between rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity.…
Until 5th October 2020, enjoy free access to Miriam Goldstein’s full article Early Judeo-Arabic Birth Narratives in the Polemical Story “Life of Jesus” (Toledot Yeshu) as published in Harvard Theological Review At some point in Late Antiquity, a scandalous polemic against Christianity emerged somewhere in the East—perhaps in Babylonia, perhaps in the Levant.…
It has been nine months since the “normal” has been disrupted with the emergence of a novel coronavirus and while we continue to be in the clasp of the COVID-19 pandemic the “new normal” has not ossified yet.…
Adalet Ağaoğlu, one of the most prominent authors of modern Turkish literature, passed away at the age of 91 leaving behind a literary legacy that will be difficult to match for years to come.…
Until 24th August 2020 enjoy free access to the full article Staging Rachel: Rabbinic Midrash, Theatrical Mime, and Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity by Fotini Hadjittofi and Hagith Sivan, as published in Harvard Theological Review, Volume 113, Issue 3.…
Higher Education from Cambridge University Press is our new online textbook website, launched in August 2020. In recent months Cambridge University Press has introduced a new set of strategies to support changing teaching and learning needs as higher education institutions prepare for a more digitally driven future in the wake of pandemic.…
Until 15th July read Christopher B. Barnett’s full article “The “Lonely Game”: Baseball, Kierkegaard, and the Spiritual Life” from Horizons, Volume 47, Issue 1 In August 2010, David Bentley Hart published a short essay entitled “The Perfect Game: The Metaphysical Meaning of Baseball.”[1]…
Let’s face it – stepping (sitting) in front of a camera has become a staple component of working from home during the global pandemic.…
A quarter of a century has passed since the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1995 genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The anniversaries of these tragedies beckon us to reflect on the responsibility of theologians, scholars of religion, and religious educators to confront genocide.…
Until 25th May 2020 enjoy free access to Jon Whitman’s full article Fable and Fact: Judging the Language of Scripture (Judges 9:8–15) from Antiquity to Modernity, published by Harvard Theological Review in Volume 113, Issue 2.…
Many of us are discovering that working at home for a long stretch can be difficult. Staying productive and motivated is a challenge, and it is not always easy to find a routine to keep things running smoothly.…
Until 1st March enjoy free access to Robert Erlewine’s full article, ‘Samuel Hirsch, Hegel, and the Legacy of Ethical Monotheism’, published in Vol.…
Until 22nd February enjoy free access to Ankur Barua’s full article, ‘The Hindu Cosmopolitanism of Sister Nivedita (Margaret Elizabeth Noble): An Irish Self in Imperial Currents’, published in Vol.…
Until 20th February enjoy free access to Nancy Levene’s full article, ‘The Religion of Confrontation: Concepts, Violence, and Scholarship’, published in Vol.…
Cambridge University Press has reached an agreement with the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) to publish their flagship journal, PMLA.…
The patterns we witness across Catholic fasting literature establish how to fast (rationally eschew one’s socialized body hatred to abstain from food for God alone), who can fast (anyone who purely wills it, abjuring the influence of body hatred), and what results from fasting (spiritual growth and not anything associated with body hatred).
In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis writes that the poor and the environment are connected. The poor suffer physically from environmental degradation and cry out along with the earth, and those with power must heed their cry. An examination of the Appalachian region and its people reveals that each of these three themes needs some development
In my article, I bring together theological tracts with those concerning diet (dietaries and regimens) to illuminate a printed discourse in which English Protestants sought to define a new relationship to everyday food and eating in light of the Reformation.
Until 30th November 2019 get FREE access to Lora Walsh’s full article ‘Lost in Revision: Gender Symbolism in Vision 3 and Similitude 9 of the Shepherd of Hermas’ from Harvard Theological Review, Volume 112, Issue 4 If you’re a writer, how long do you spend in the revision stage?…
Until 5th November 2019, get free access to Joel Kaminsky and Mark Reasoner’s full article ‘The Meaning and Telos of Israel’s Election: An Interfaith Response to N.T.…
Two young women in villages less than ten miles apart drew international attention from devout Catholics and sensation seekers.
Our article investigates the provenance and significance of the manuscript, showing how its content reveals that Locke is commenting on a book by Sir Charles Wolseley (1629/30-1714) called Liberty of conscience, the magistrates interest (1668), as a way of asking whether Catholics can be tolerated.
Until 1st September 2019, get free access to Jason N. Yuh’s full article ‘Do as I Say, Not as They Do: Social Construction in the Epistle of Barnabas Through Canonical Interpretation and Ritual’ From Harvard Theological Review’s latest publication, Volume 112, Issue 3.…
Until 25th August, 2019, get free access to David H. Wenkel’s full article ‘The Doctrine of the Extent of the Atonement among the Early English Particular Baptists’ in Harvard Theological Review’s latest publication, Volume 112, Issue 3.…
Check out Patrick J. Casey’s article ‘Ricoeur on Truth in Religious Discourse: A Reclamation’ in Horizons’ latest publication, Volume 46, Issue 1 In this paper I take preliminary steps in exploring the philosophical underpinnings of interreligious learning.…
Blessing of the Oil of Catechumens. The text of this prayer is, in the words of Anthony Ward, “substantially a new and largely free composition.”[1]…
Get free access to Collin Cornell's article “A Sharp Break: Childs, Wellhausen, and Theo-referentiality”, in Harvard Theological Review until 20th June 2019 Brevard Childs and Julius Wellhausen are two of my intellectual heroes. But they do not get along—so to speak.
The early centuries in the history of Christian asceticism, and of monasticism that it gave rise to, invite a short and accessible overview.
The theophany at Sinai and the idea of revelation are among the core issues of Jewish theology
From our perspective, life seems meaningful—and not just full of personally meaningful things, like having children or playing Bach perfectly. Most of us live our lives as if there is an answer to the callings of our deepest soul longings. We live as if what we do matters in some sort of cosmic way. Human life feels as though it has purpose and function and meaning.
The study illustrates the ways in which Platonic and Neoplatonic concepts were appropriated by the early Kabbalists and their expression through myth and symbol in Zoharic literature.
In early modern England, spectral figures like Madam Savage were regular visitors to the world of the living and a vibrant variety of beliefs and expectations clustered around these questionable shapes.
Get free access to Conor M. Kelly’s piece, ‘On Pediatric Vaccines and Catholic Social Teaching‘, in Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society until January 31, 2019.…
A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology: Prophesy Freedom. By Teresa Delgado. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xv + 204 pages. $99.00.…
Cambridge University Press is partnering with the Renaissance Society of America (RSA) to publish Renaissance Quarterly, the leading American journal of Renaissance Studies.…
For the past few years, I have been at work on a book about the word meaning in such expressions as “the meaning of life,” “searching for meaning,” “ultimate meaning,” “higher meaning.”…
Genesis Rabbah, a rabbinic midrash (work of homiletical exegesis) compiled in Byzantine Palestine relates a fascinating story about the great Roman emperor, Diocletian (224–311 CE).…
Angelic choirs hum as calligraphic titles fill the screen. As the choir soars, an authoritative voice begins a tale that may be both alien and familiar: the coming of a heavenly visitor whose story bears repeating.…
Pedro Feitoza’s essay Experiments in Missionary Writing: Protestant Missions and the Imprensa Evangelica in Brazil, 1864-1892 is the inaugural winner of the World Christianities Essay Prize* It was in August 2008, in the countryside of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, that I first encountered volumes of Brazil’s first Protestant periodical, the Imprensa Evangelica (Evangelical Press, 1864-1892).…
Using the work of Thomas Aquinas, the article from which this blog is extracted examines ways to construct an ethical framework for Christian communities in West Africa to address involuntary childlessness.…
Recent developments in the Christian world (especially in the Catholic Church) regarding Christian-Jewish relations—initiated by the papal Nostra Aetate declaration of 1965—have led to the questioning of some classical Christian attitudes vis à vis “the Jews.”…
Dutch theologian Hans Reinders believes that being chosen as a friend is the greatest good we can do for other people, and for the common good: “The ultimate good is.…
This virtual special issue highlights some of the exciting directions that scholarship on the Cold War in Latin America has taken over the last decade.…
How do the voices and actions of the members of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement speak to us in the Catholic theological academy?…
The discourse of “equality,” which originated in democratic Athens, revived in the first century CE, in response to growing inequality between the classes. …
Demons were an important part of Late Antique life across religious divides. This article explores how the authors of the Babylonian Talmud “think with” the demonic to produce meaningful rabbinic spaces.…
The Commentary on the Torah of Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac; 1040–1105) stands out as the most widely studied and influential Hebrew Bible commentary ever composed.…
Heidegger’s descriptions of Dasein’s “finitude” (Endlichkeit) in Sein und Zeit are based on Dasein’s experience of thrownness and mortality, and not on theology and the relation to God, methodologically suspended early on in the treatise.…
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council declaration, Nostra Aetate, Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia commissioned sculptor Joshua Koffman to create an original artwork called “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time” for the plaza outside the campus chapel.…
This is an English translation of the Editorial to Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales Volume 72 – Issue 1. On the publication of their two most recent volumes in 2016,[1] the Annales invited Dominique Iogna-Prat and Florian Mazel to participate in an exercise in lecture croisée.…
What does one do after one has reached apprehension of God? According to Maimonides in his Guide of the Perplexed, there is indeed more to be done.…
This article examines the parallel strategies taken by Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) and contemporaries in the Eastern European Lithuanian Talmudic academies to develop modernizing interpretations of Jewish text, tradition, and law.…
In this article, I enter the discussion over what constitutes Catholic biblical interpretation to argue that in order for biblical interpretation to be “Catholic,” it must integrate hermeneutical approaches that foreground real readers within the context of lived realities.…
Female sexual and sexualized bodies are constructed in multiple ways. One construction posits that females are autonomous and self-determining, and advocates for unimpeded choice regarding sexual expression, bodies, and reproduction.
“O Sweet Cautery”: John of the Cross and the Healing of the Natural World” Mary Frohlich, RSCJ, Catholic Theological Union at Chicago In “The Living Flame of Love,” John of the Cross began to use the image of “cautery” to express the paradox of one act that both grievously wounds and radically heals.…
“Jesus and the World of Grace, 1968–2016: An Idiosyncratic Theological Memoir” William L. Portier, University of Dayton, CTS president Looking back at the last five decades of my development as a theologian, I offer an impressionistic look at Catholic theology in the United States.…
Many will find it surprising to learn of the connection between C. S. Lewis and Anders Nygren. In his recent book on Lewis, Alister McGrath notes that Lewis “disconnected” himself from modern theological debates.…
The future of the Anglican Communion hung in the air – or rather a whirlwind – of uncertainty, as Anglican Primates from around world met in Lambeth in mid-January 2016.…
“Parents Just Don’t Understand: Ambiguity in Stories about the Childhood of Jesus” Chris Frilingos, Michigan State University This article is about early Christian accounts of the family life of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.…
Find out more about the new editor of Scottish Journal of Theology (SJT) as he offers advice to authors, discusses where he sees the journal progressing and tells us what the most exciting currents in theology are today.…
In this blogpost, James Carleton Paget discusses his article ‘Albert Schweitzer and the Jews‘, which was published in Harvard Theology Review in July 2014 (107/3).…
The 2014 Religious Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize was recently awarded to two co-winners: Daniel Kodaj, of the Central European University and Ryan W.…
The 2014 Religious Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize was recently awarded to two co-winners: Daniel Kodaj, of the Central European University and Ryan W.…
In this blogpost, Helen Bond discusses her article ‘Dating the Death of Jesus: Memory and the Religious Imagination’, which was published in New Testament Studies at the end of last year (59/4).…
On February 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would resign his papal office at the end of the same month.…
Journal of Anglican Studies offers a serious scholarly conversation on all aspects of Anglicanism. This blogpost provides a précis of Andrew McGowan’s editorial piece, which introduces a special issue of the journal on Scriptural Reasoning.…
The American Philosophical Association (APA) and Cambridge University Press will launch the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, a new general philosophy journal, in 2015.…
You’ve got an idea for a paper, but aren’t sure about how to get your scholarship to the right audience. Melissa Good, Commissioning Editor for Cambridge Journals, completes her overview.…
Samuel Shearn is studying an MPhil in Modern Theology at the University of Oxford on an Ertegun Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities.…
You’ve got an idea for a paper, but aren’t sure about how to get your scholarship to the right audience. Melissa Good, Commissioning Editor for Cambridge Journals, gives an overview. …
Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few final notes on getting your first book ready for publication. …
In his second post, Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few more notes on getting your first book ready for publication. …
In the first of three posts, Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few notes on getting your first book ready for publication.…
Dr Martin Lembke is the Associate Director of Studies at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden. He was recently awarded the 2012 Religious Studies Postgraduate Essay Prize for his article ‘Omnipotence and other possibilities’ (Religious Studies 48/4).…
Some of the most important decisions that a journals publisher has to make involve selecting a new editorial team. This process can take many months, and can require careful analysis of both objective and subjective factors.…
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Today is the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, the original tortured poet, and the release of @taylorswift13's new album.
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Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
The award, for the best public policy book by a Canadian, will be announced in May.
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