online archive
6:00PM
DEC 26 2007
Opening the covenant
From Chronicles, Thomas Fleming on Christianity and the Empire. The cross and the crescent: Why Christians feel under threat in today's Turkey. A review of The Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto by Niccolo Capponi. Christian, Muslim, Jew: An article on Franz Rosenzweig and the Abrahamic religions. A review of Opening the Covenant: A Jewish Theology of Christianity by Michael S. Kogan. A review of The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ by Lee Strobel; Thumpin' It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today's Presidential Politics by Jacques Berlinerblau. The trouble with Mary: Of all the beliefs across time, there is none so seemingly extraordinary as belief in the Virgin Birth. Calcata's most remarkable attraction turns out to be something no longer there: the supposed foreskin of Jesus Christ.
