Last week we introduced Open Theology , an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal of research articles from established and emerging scholars in the field of religion. The journal has just published its “Bible Translation” topical…
Richard Beck is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Abilene Christian University. On his popular blog Experimental Theology Richard will spend enormous amounts of time writing about the theology of Johnny Cash, the demonology of Scooby-Doo or his…
Forrest Curo posts regularly on QuakerQuaker . In response to Forrest’s comment on our review of The Book of Job: A Biography , reviewer Larry Spears invited him to contribute the following blog post. (Forrest has also published this piece on his…
What do Quakers say about the dilemma provided in the biblical Book of Job? Mark Larrimore’s The Book of Job: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2013) focuses the reader’s attention on the experience of injustice, the success of the wicked, and the…
Quakers are right to select Paul as one of their spiritual ancestors … Careful choice of ancestors is important to our spiritual lives of all humans. Paul is a good early selection. Paul helps set us on an accurate path in the moral landscape of reality. Paul sensed that the arc…
Just as there are many “Christianities,” there are many forms of “Christian Universalism.” … I seek to follow the faith and practice of the historical Jesus, regardless of how later belief systems and their enforcers may have reinterpreted his ministry to…
James P. Carse taught at New York University for thirty years as the Professor of the History and Literature of Religion, and Director of the Religious Studies Program. He retired from the University in 1996. He is a writer and an artist, and lives in New York City and…