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Theology as a way of life

A new issue of the Journal of Analytic Theology is out, including William Wood (Oxford): Analytic Theology as a Way of Life. Lando Leonhardt Lehmann (South Africa): Theology and the Gospel in a New Paradigm. Frederick Mark Gedicks (BYU): Religion, Meaning, Life, Truth. Avigail I. Eisenberg (Victoria): Religion as Identity. Jonathan Downing (Oxford): "Take Me Away!" Prince, the Bible, and the End of the World as Sexual Liberation. From 3:AM, on theism and explanation: Greg Dawes is a philosopher who always thinks hard about religion; and George Pattison is a philosophical theologian who thinks about contemporary religion, about how God cannot be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and cannot be an object of detached scientific contemplation. Matthew Rose on how Karl Barth failed to liberate theology from modernity's captivity. The introduction to Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: A Biography by Bernard McGinn. Rowan Williams reviews Theology Without Metaphysics: God, Language, and the Spirit of Recognition by Kevin Hector. A late-life return to religion: Henry L. Carrigan reviews Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton. The first chapter from The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton. Casey Cep reviews Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns by Abbie Reese. The shortest route to God: Brian Palmer on why religious pilgrimages are incredibly dangerous. What God does to your brain: The controversial science of neurotheology aims to find the answer to an age-old question — why do we believe? Patrick McNamara on the god effect: Religion spawns both benevolent saints and murderous fanatics — could dopamine levels in the brain drive that switch? From The Jury Expert, Gayle W. Herde on the ABC’s of religiosity: Attitude, belief, commitment and faith. Christian boy dies for 3 minutes, meets Allah in Heaven.