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Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 284: Beverly Gaventa
I always think I know what Romans is about, and then I reread Romans. I don’t fault the Reformed for fixating on the formulas...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 283: Chelsea Yarborough
In the sixteenth century, Desiderius Erasmus revolutionized homiletics by bringing the insights of Ciceronian and later humanist rhetoric to bear on preaching, and historians...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 282: Volker Leppin
Talk to an American Protestant about her spiritual life, and you’re as likely as not to hear about reading a printed Bible, usually in...
Christian Humanist Profiles 281: Sean Keilen
For Americans, in the twenty-first century, the first association between Shakespeare and schools is obvious: we read Shakespeare in school. Whether we’re thinking of...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 280: Ian Hunter
I first learned about Pierre Hadot in a John Milbank book, and ever since I’ve read everything of his that I could get my...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 279: Philip Ziegler
I’ve spent a fair bit of my professional life among devils. Dante’s gigantic Satan never was much of a talker, but Marlowe’s Mephistopheles and...