Voltaire remarked that all Christology is somehow autobiographical Geza Vermes born into a Hungarian Jewish family converted to Christianity political refugee Catholic priest who later returned to the Judaism of his ancestors first professor of Jewish studies at Oxford died on May 8 2013 at
Without a Claim Grace Schulman rsquo s dazzling seventh poetry collection immerses us in a richly textured world where ldquo dread-and-joy rdquo are neighbors ldquo Charles Street Psalm rdquo and nothing is truly ours ldquo We rent borrow or share even our bodies and never own all that
In his very first sentence Denys Turner professor of historical theology at Yale University tells us that in his portrait of that most Catholic of Catholic philosopher-theologians St Thomas Aquinas 1225-74 ldquo I have not until undertaking this work given more careful consideration to an i
In April 1938 the British writer Stephen Spender sent a letter to George Orwell asking how Orwell could justify attacking Spender for his politics and then mdash after the two writers had met mdash changing his attitude and treating Spender in a more amicable and generous manner Orwell responded w
A new Darwin indeed one who does a better job of explaining who and what we are than even Sigmund Freud Someone who offers a key to all the mythologies And even in this age of secular modernity one who offers an intellectual synthesis that actually holds faith reason and science together That
In December 1944 as winter arrived across bomb-ravaged Europe the Allied armies striving to crush Hitler rsquo s monstrous war machine had cause for optimism Though bloody and chaotic the D-Day invasion six months earlier had been a success American and British troops were advancing through Fran