Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land; from the origins to the Latin Kingdoms.
2503518087 Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land; from the origins to the Latin Kingdoms. Ed. by Ora Limor and Guy G. Stroumsa. Brepols Publishers 2006 527 pages $100.00 Hardcover Cultural encounters in...

His Dark Materials trilogy: (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).
His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) WRITTEN BY Philip Pullman PUBLISHED BY Random House Children's Books, 2003, ISBN: 0440419518, Softcover, $29.97 CND Evil. This one word describes Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. All the more diabolical is the marketing...

Plan B in the pluralist-dialogue approach to religious diversity in America.
I. Pluralist Dialogue "Pluralism" and "dialogue" are much used yet variously defined terms in contemporary discourse about America's increasingly diverse cultural landscape. In this essay, the phrase "pluralist dialogue" denotes active and appreciative interpersonal engagement among representatives of diverse groups, in contrast to passive toleration, negative assessment,...

The history of blasphemy.
Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History. David Nash. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]35.00. xvi + 269 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-925516-0. In the United States, blasphemy effectively vanished from the law when, in the 1951 case about Rossellini's 'The Miracle', the Supreme Court declared that 'If there is...

Contesting Texts: Jews and Christians in Conversation about the Bible.
Contesting Texts: Jews and Christians in Conversation about the Bible. Edited by Melody D. Knowles, Esther Menn, John Pawlikowski, and Timothy J. Sandoval. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2007. Pp. 229. $29.00. This volume consists of eight papers from a 2005 conference of the same name, hosted by...

The way of torah as askesis: an ascetic conceptualization of the life of Mitzvah.
Asceticism and Judaism generally have not been associated with each other in the popular and, until recently, scholarly mind. It has long been assumed that Christianity is an ascetic religion while Judaism is not. In fact Judaism is widely viewed as an anti-ascetic faith. I have demonstrated elsewhere, first...

D'Souza and the divine.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] What's So Great About Christianity, by Dinesh D'Souza (Regnery, 348 pp., $27.95) IN lining up book reviews for the Christmas issue, it was a swashbuckling move on the part of NR's literary editor, a Christian, to assign this work of Christian apologetics to...

Turkish perceptions of the West.
ABSTRACT This article, based on a book published by SETA, looks at the attitudes of Turkish people towards what is conceived as the West and Western culture. While some polls suggest a deep anti-European and anti-American sentiment in Turkey with a clear opposition to Christianity as the...

What about the Crusades?
The unholy trinity. The Crusades, the Inquisition and the Church doing nothing during the Holocaust. The three grenades thrown at Catholics by people who know even less about Catholicism than they do about history. If these don't work, toss in some nonsense about Galileo or clergy abuse. Or just...

There is a second approach to the problem, and Marshall describes it this way: "linking the old covenant to the new as 'figure' to 'reality' or 'shadow' to 'truth' is ... a way of insisting that the Church and her faith do have an inherent connection to the Jewish people and their faith.
There is a second approach to the problem, and Marshall describes it this way: "Linking the old covenant to the new as 'figure' to 'reality' or 'shadow' to 'truth' is ... a way of insisting that the Church and her faith do have an inherent connection to the Jewish...