As a person with a Lutheran background (somewhat convoluted and sidetracked admittedly, as most people who read this blog know) I found a re...

Hans Kung is a brilliant scholar and among the most perceptive voices in Christendom. Reading his Christianity: Essence, History & Futu...

BBC4 has a recent program on Paul the apostle available online for those with an interest in this pivotal figure. Some mildly interesting d...

Study Bibles: there are the academic ones (Oxford, HarperCollins etc.) and the apologetic ones, and ne'er the twain shall meet. Except p...

Rodney Stark, well known for his The Rise of Christianity , has produced a large (nearly 500 pages) treatment of "the origins of the gr...

I've grown jaded about the competence and objectivity of "hard theology" since beginning a degree in that discipline. Biblica...

Borg and Crossan are both impressively credentialed scholars, but neither has "gelled" with me particularly. The prospect of a boo...