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November 25, 2017

Book Review: Giannozzo Manetti

November 25, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

New in the I Tatti series: a tract in praise of Christianity (at the expense of Jews and ancient pagans) by a towering figure of the early Renaissance.

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November 25, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
November 2017, religion, Steve Donoghue
October 02, 2017

Book Review: The Meaning of Belief

October 02, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The gap between the religious and the "New Atheists" seems wider than ever - but have both sides failed even to understand each other? A pocket-sized new book examines some of the oldest questions of all.

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October 02, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
October 2017, religion, Steve Donoghue
October 01, 2017

Book Review: The New Testament

October 01, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A new translation of the New Testament strips away the baroque filigree and presents the raw, jumbled voices of the original.

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October 01, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
October 2017, religion, Steve Donoghue, stevereads
September 27, 2017

Book Review: Pious Fashion

September 27, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A new book looks at the intricate world of Muslim women's clothing fashions.

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September 27, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
religion, September 2017
September 19, 2017

Book Review: Purpose & Desire

September 19, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A new book stares into the divide between living and non-living matter and finds the darndest things staring back.

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September 19, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
religion, September 2017
June 12, 2017

Book Review: Heretics & Believers

June 12, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A big, wonderfully readable new history of the sixteenth-century religious upheaval that transformed English life

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June 12, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
June 2017, religion
April 04, 2017

Book Review: Protestants

April 04, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

A invigorating new history looks at the tumultuous 500-year history of Protestantism

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April 04, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
April 2017, religion
February 20, 2017

Book Review: Homo Deus

February 20, 2017/ Steve Donoghue

The author of the popular-science hit Sapiens returns with a book that looks not to humanity's distant past but rather to its immediate future.

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February 20, 2017/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
February 2017, philosophy, religion, science
July 31, 2016

Keeping the Faith, Keeping the Feast

July 31, 2016/ Martyn Wendell Jones

The masterful essays in Gregory Wolfe's The Operation of Grace range from Mel Gibson to Thomas More, from Annie Dillard to Christopher Hitchens. Martyn Wendell Jones reviews.

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July 31, 2016/ Martyn Wendell Jones/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Arts & Life
August 2016, fiction, literary criticism, religion
April 11, 2015

Book Review: The Ransom of the Soul

April 11, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In his new book, Peter Brown offers a provocative and fascinating new look at the evolution of the Christian idea that you can be helped in the next life by how much moolah you fork over in this one

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April 11, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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April 2015, christianity, religion
February 10, 2015

Book Review: Simply Good News

February 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The latest book from New Testament scholar N. T. Wright presents a passionate new appraisal of the "good news " of the Christian Gospels

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February 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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February 2015, religion
January 30, 2015

Book Review: One Nation, Under Gods

January 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

From the Puritans and their city on a hill to the Mormons to modern-day charlatans, the story of the United States is the story of competing faiths; a lively new book looks at that complicated tapestry

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January 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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american history, January 2015, religion
April 04, 2013

Book Review: Christian Beginnings

April 04, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A new book by a legendary scholar charts the journey of early Christianity from a charismatic cult to the official religion of an empire

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April 04, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
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April 2013, christianity, religion
July 11, 2009

Review of The Evolution of God

July 11, 2009/ Ignazio de Vega

In his review of The Evolution of God, Ignazio de Vega illustrates how Robert Wright investigates the origins of humankind's notions of God.

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July 11, 2009/ Ignazio de Vega/
Monthly Cover, Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology
animals, evolution, Ignazio de Vega, July 2009, religion, science
April 29, 2008

Book Review: Surprised by Hope

April 29, 2008/ Steve Donoghue

N.T. Wright's book of theology earns its allusion to C.S. Lewis' Surprised by Joy. Steve Donoghue reviews.

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April 29, 2008/ Steve Donoghue/
Religion & Philosophy
April 2008, Book Review, C-S- Lewis, religion, Steve Donoghue
May 11, 2007

Christploitation

May 11, 2007/ Sam Sacks

Sam Sacks laments the great divorce of Christianity from literature

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May 11, 2007/ Sam Sacks/
Religion & Philosophy
fiction, May 2007, philosophy, religion, Sam Sacks
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