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Timothy Larsen, "The Oxford Handbook of Christm...
An interview with Timothy Larsen
43 min
1177
C. Burnett, "Studying the New Testament Through...
An interview with C. Burnett
32 min
1178
Mark Wild, "Renewal: Liberal Protestants and th...
Wild traces the achievements and losses of American mainline Protestant Christians as they attempted to renew their churches and their cities in the twentieth century...
50 min
1179
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages:...
An interview with Roland Betancourt
68 min
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Ian H. Clary, "Reformed Evangelicalism and the ...
Clary offers an outstanding study of one of the most influential modern evangelical historians, Arnold Dallimore...
29 min
1181
Carl R. Trueman, "The Rise and Triumph of the M...
“My aim is to explain how and why a certain notion of the self has come to dominate the culture of the West,..."
122 min
1182
M. T. Mulder and G. Marti, "The Glass Church: R...
Mulder and Marti offer a compelling look at the rise and fall of one of the most popular and influential Christian evangelists of the twentieth century,..
53 min
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Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Rel...
Scott explores the lives of the devout laywomen who cared for and maintained churches and shrines in the Basque country...
49 min
1184
Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A ...
Restrelli divulges the clandestine inner workings of the seminary, providing an intimate and unapologetic look into the psychosexual and spiritual dynamics of celibacy...
58 min
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Jason Keith Fernandes, "Citizenship in a Caste ...
Fernandes explores the interconnected themes of language, citizenship and identity, showing how, by deliberately excluding the Roman script, the largely lower-caste and lower-class Catholic users of this script were denoted as less-than-authentic members of civil society....
58 min
1186
Adam Kotsko, "Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Po...
Neoliberalism’s Demons posits we can best understand neoliberalism through the lens of political theology...
75 min
1187
David Newheiser, "Hope in a Secular Age: Decons...
Newheiser argues that hope is the indispensable precondition of religious practice and secular politics...
85 min
1188
Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: T...
In this rhetorical history, Johnson contextualizes and analyzes some of Turner’s key speeches and writings delivered between 1896 and 1915 amid the rise of Jim Crow segregation and the first Great Migration...
72 min
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T. C. F. Stunt, "The Life and Times of Samuel P...
Stunt shows how Tregelles moved from humble origins, overcoming educational barriers through ambition and determination, to become a serious rival to textual critics like Constantin von Tischendorf,..
36 min
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Ken Tully and Chad Leahy, "Jerusalem Afflicted:...
On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to undertake a crusade to 'liberate' the Holy Land...
87 min
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Richard Muller, "Grace and Freedom: William Per...
Muller argues that we need to re-think our understanding of the debate about “free will” – he prefers “free choice” – and divine sovereignty...
31 min
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Walker Robins, "Between Dixie and Zion: Souther...
Walker Robins explores how Southern Baptists engaged what was called the “Palestine question”: whether Jews or Arabs would, or should, control the Holy Land after World War I....
53 min
1193
Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, Histor...
Are the canonical Gospels historically reliable?
38 min
1194
Agnès Delahaye, "Settling the Good Land: Govern...
Delahaye tells the story of John Winthrop’s tenure as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630’s...
53 min
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Paolo Astorri, "Lutheran Theology and Contract ...
Astorri shows how the Protestant Reformation influence European law. Martin Luther and his successors led European Christianity away from medieval ideas of penance and the careful accounting that went with it toward theology of grace...
41 min
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Suma Ikeuchi, "Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migrat...
In 1990, the Japanese government introduced the Nikkei-jin (Japanese descendant) visa and since then it has attracted more than 190,000 Nikkei Brazilian nationals to Japan...
76 min
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Peter J. Thuesen, "Tornado God: American Religi...
Thuesen links the “numinous” religious experiences of Americans as they experienced the uniquely destructive weather phenomenon of the tornado....
48 min
1198
James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Refor...
In Simpson’s account, liberalism did not flow neatly from Protestant triumph. Liberalism and Protestantism are indeed intertwined, but in a much more violent, anguished way than we’re familiar with...
86 min
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Stefan Bauer, "The Invention of Papal History: ...
Stefan Bauer has written an outstanding study of one of the most important Catholic historians in early modern Europe...
29 min
1200
Tamura Lomax, “Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Bl...
One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...
68 min