How does Jesus save?
Looking back to history to find yet another approach to atonement will not solve the problem, but a reconsideration of the physical or mystical theory of how Christ saves us might contribute to more fruitful and civil conversation.
Heaven explained
Christians don’t go to heaven when we die—that’s the dramatic way to summarize N. T....
A place for passion
A lengthy prepublication excerpt in the New York Times Magazine, quotations on the back cover from famous schola...
Wisdom makes a comeback
David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, is one of the important British theologians of his generation (he recen...
Fighting atheist
After you have written books attacking Henry Kissinger and Mother Teresa, what is left, really, but to write a book attacking Go...
Liberal heroes
This book completes a magnificent scholarly accomplishment: the three-volume The Making of...
Beyond 'taboo morality'
To read the papers or watch the news, one would think that sex and gender are the only issues facing Christians today....
Teaching moments: Energetic listening
When I arrived at Yale more than 30 years ago to do graduate work in theology, I soon heard other students urging that I take a course with David Kelsey....
Doubting theology: Conversations that count
How do Christians understand their faith in light of insights gained from history, social science, natural science and other modes of inquiry?...
Haunted by evil
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy. By Susan Neiman. Princeton University Press, 358 pp., $29.95....