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  • 23 Mar 2026
    Cover of Shared Morals
    Jae-Hee Jung

    Morality and Political Communication

    Political arguments often appeal to fundamental moral intuitions about right and wrong. Politicians highlight the moral basis of their views and positions. For example, in the context of the recent U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, Senator Steve Daines explicitly appealed to morals in his post on X saying that he “support[s] President Trump’s actions […]

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  • 6 Mar 2026
    Christopher R. Mooney

    Augustine’s Theology of Justification by Faith

    Other than Paul, no writer has had greater influence on the theology of justification than Augustine. In the preface to his Latin works, Martin Luther famously narrated his discovery of the justifying righteousness of God: first he says he read Paul’s Letter to the Romans, but the very next author he turned to for confirmation […]

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  • 4 Mar 2026
    Robert MacSwain

    Saints as Divine Evidence

    This book brings together two vibrant academic discourses that have rarely interacted beforehand: religious epistemology and comparative hagiography. Inspired by Austin Farrer’s provocative claim that ‘the saint is our evidence’, it presents what I propose we call the ‘hagiological argument for the existence of God’- that is, the idea that human lives of remarkable holiness […]

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  • 27 Feb 2026
    Lee Palmer Wandel

    The Puzzle of Uly Anders’ Execution

    Uly Anders first pulled me into the puzzle The Reformation of Liturgy: Matter and Time Reconceived seeks to unravel.  He was executed in 1520.  His crime?  Blasphemy, which the law defined as an affront against God.  Anders had broken up and thrown out a window a small crucifixion scene carved in wood.  The image had […]

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  • 26 Jan 2026
    A. Chadwick Thornhill

    Theosis and Moral Transformation

    The epistle of 2 Peter is not merely a polemic against false teachers; it is founded upon a compelling theological vision of life with God. In my commentary on 2 Peter, I argue that the letter’s ethical foundation lies in the concept articulated in 1:3-4: that believers “become sharers of the divine nature.” This principle, […]

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  • 26 Jan 2026
    A. Chadwick Thornhill

    Reconsidering 2 Peter as a Letter-Testament

    One of the outcomes of my examination of 2 Peter is challenging the widely held scholarly designation of this letter as a “testament.” This genre classification has been profoundly influential, particularly following the work of Richard Bauckham, which often leads to the conclusion that 2 Peter is a “transparent fiction”—a pseudonymous work whose lack of […]

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  • 14 Jan 2026
    Richard Flower

    The Early History of Heresy

    What makes someone a heretic? In the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, heresy is ‘the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith’.[1] It is about people within the community being judged to have deviated from a core […]

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  • 16 Dec 2025
    Frode Kjosavik

    The Power of Perception

    I am now sitting in front of my laptop and staring at a text on the screen. In other words, I have a perception of it. My perception is from a particular perspective. However, I can easily switch from one perspective to another. Thus, at one moment, I am zooming in on single words and […]

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