Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer by Scott H. Hendrix
It has been 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Scott H. Hendrix,…
Christianity
The Anglo-Saxon World: Kings and Early Christianity
Understanding the development of religion in the Anglo-Saxon world is pivotal to understanding the rest of this ancient culture and its society. Here, Nicholas…
The Catholic Church, Pope Francis and The Shroud of Turin
The mystery surrounding the Shroud of Turin has fascinated people for centuries. Often considered to be the burial cloth of Jesus – with accounts…
Terry Eagleton:
Culture and the Death of God
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? In Culture and the Death of God, formidable thinker and renowned cultural…
Robert Calderisi: The Catholic Church & the Developing World
With 1.3 billion members, the Catholic Church is the world’s largest organization and perhaps its most controversial. The Church’s obstinacy on matters like clerical…
‘A Letter to the New Atheists’, by ‘The Great Agnostic’ author Susan Jacoby
During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as The Great Agnostic. The nation’s…
‘Is the Secularization of America Really a Big Deal?’ by Brent Nongbri
A recent poll conducted in the US indicated that a growing proportion of adults have no religious affiliation, but does this matter? Brent Nongbri, the author…
‘Narrative History and the Collapsing of Historical Distance’ by Christopher Jones
After reading Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America, recently published by Yale University Press as part of the ‘New Directions…
How Christianity came to Latin America: Extract from ‘New Worlds’ by John Lynch
With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch’s New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by…
Art as Parable? Provocative new Yale book provides theological readings of secular art
Yesterday Yale University Press published Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenge of Art, a book which is bound to provoke debate within the art history community. We…
David Bentley Hart wins the Michael Ramsey prize for ‘Atheist Delusions’
David Bentley Hart’s provocative book Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies has won the Michael Ramsey Prize, which was awarded at…
Easter Reading from Yale
Yale University Press presents a wide variety of books for the Easter period, looking at Christian art, history and architecture. For those of the…
Author Article by Charles Freeman: The Sacred Flesh of the Saints
In his newly published book Holy Bones, Holy Dust, CHARLES FREEMAN presents a full-scale history of medieval relics. Here he explores the forgotten medieval…
Author Event: Charles Freeman on Early Christian Art
Charles Freeman, author of A New History of Early Christianity (out now in paperback) and Holy Bones, Holy Dust (forthcoming in April) is running…