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  • Women in the Greco-Roman Context

    This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting upon Women and Gender in Early Christianity. One particular problem for establishing an adequate understanding of the Greco-Roman world constitutes the paucity of source materials and then, of course, the difficulties of interpreting that source material. This is especially true with regard to source material specifically…

  • Reflections on Method, Women, and Early Christianity

    Over the next several weeks, I’ll be running a series of reflections stemming from a doctoral seminar on Women and Gender in Early Christianity, taught at Saint Louis University by Carolyn Osiek. These posts will proceed in (more or less) chronological order, beginning with today’s reflections on methodology. Introducing a “special edition” of Method and…

  • Recommended Reading: February 13-19

    If you read one article this weekend, look at Remembering Scalia by James Copeland. Have more time to read? Check out the following suggestions from around the interwebs. Think I missed linking an important article? Let me know in the comments section below. Happy reading!

  • Recommended Reading: January 30-February 5

    If you read one article this weekend, look at Tradition’s Future by Mark Movsesian. For those of you with additional reading time this winter weekend, check out the following selections below, gleaned from around the internet over the past couple of weeks. Think I missed linking something that was particularly interesting? Let me know in…

  • Book Review: Who Made Early Christianity? (Gager)

    Contemporary readers of the New Testament are often struck by the overwhelming influence of the Apostle Paul. After not appearing at all in the gospels and barely appearing in the first half of Acts, he comes to dominate most of the rest of the New Testament canon. Despite his popularity, however, Paul remains a controversial…

  • Book Review: Paul’s Message and Ministry in Covenant Perspective (Hafemann)

    There has been no shortage of scholarship on Paul in the last 150 years, as theologians and biblical scholars alike have taken up writing about Paul en masse. Amid the voluminous tomes on the Apostle, certain voices ring out more clearly than the others, beckoning readers to take up Paul with fresh insight. Scott J.…

  • Recommended Reading: January 16-22

    If you read one article this week, look at “Remembrance of Death” Can Overcome “Death Obsession” by Wesley Smith. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following selections from around the blogging world. As always, if you think there is something else I should be reading, feel free to…

  • Book Review: Guilt by Association (Smith)

    Since the publication of Walter Bauer’s Rechtgläubigkeit und Ketzerie im ältesten Christentum in 1934, the issue of discerning orthodoxy and heresy in earliest Christianity has taken on renewed importance. Amidst this reinvigorated study, however, scholars have by-and-large failed to appropriately consider the insights of Christian heretical catalogues, or so argues Geoffrey S. Smith in Guilt…

  • Recommended Reading: January 9-15

    If you read one article this week, look at Sorry, the Bible Doesn’t Promise to Make America Great Again by Russell Moore. For those of you with additional reading time this January weekend, check out the selections below gathered from around the interwebs. Think I missed sharing an important link? Let me know in the…

  • Book Review: Called to the Life of the Mind (Mouw)

    Richard J. Mouw’s Called to the Life of the Mind: Some Advice for Evangelical Scholars (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014) is short on length but long on insight. Weighing in at only 74 pages, Mouw’s work is part biography, part example, and all exhortation to love God and people through the life of the mind.