From America, Luke Timothy Johnson on the Jesus controversy: Jesus is best learned not as a result of an individual’s scholarly quest that is published in a book, but as a continuing process of personal transformation within a community of disciples (and two responses). From Inside Catholic, Jeffrey Tucker on why Catholics don't understand economics. St. Peter and the Minarets: The Catholic Church is under assault — a secularizing West, the encroachment of Islam into Europe, and the sexual-abuse scandal all threaten the Vatican's ability to influence the masses. A review of This Little Light: Beyond a Baptist Predator Preacher and His Gang by Christa Brown. A review of The Hermeneutics of Doctrine by Anthony C. Thiselton. A review of Apocalypse and Allegiance: Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation by J. Nelson Kraybill. From Ars Disputandi, a review of The Meaning of the West: An Apologia for Secular Christianity by Don Cupitt. From New English Review, Nicolai Sennels on Muslims and Westerners: The psychological differences; and Hugh Fitzgerald on twenty-five (out of one hundred) things we all should know about Islam. A look at how "sharia" is a much more abstract concept than ideologues — whether Mideast Islamists or Newt Gingrich — suggest. A review of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold (and more and more and more and more and more and more). A review of Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam by Fred M. Donner. When Islam abandoned reason: An interview with Robert R. Reilly, author of The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis (and more). A review of The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism by Tariq Ramadan (and more and more and more).
