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The Muslim community, known as the umma, is meant to be united. The Qur’an, in chapter 29, verse 92, states that “Indeed, this your umma is one umma, and I am your Lord; so worship Me.” Yet Muslims, just like Jews, Christians and other religious groups, divided into various communal divisions quite early in their […]
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On 18 September 2012, Rome played host to the quadrennial conference of the International Congress of Coptic Studies. On the evening of that day, the Harvard-based feminist historian Karen King (1054-) delivered a paper bearing the seemingly harmless title ‘A New Coptic Fragment.’ King announced the discovery of a fragment of papyrus that came, she […]
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Whoever you are reading this, however rich, powerful, educated, knowledgeable, successful, or otherwise, one thing is certain: you are limited. Your wealth, success, knowledge, power, and education are finite. Your life is finite. Your time is finite. Your physical ability is finite. Everything about you is finite. Does this frustrate you? Sadden you? Upset you? […]
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It is commonly believed that to attain knowledge, one should always be ready to replace one’s previously held convictions with beliefs that appear to be supported by more evidence. I call this view mere epistemology. It seems incorrigible, which is why it is usually taken for granted by practitioners in every field as well as […]
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A PROMISE THAT IS AT ONCE A CHALLENGE Gene editing offers great promise to reduce human misery and facilitate human health: to combat virus infectious diseases; to correct monogenic disorders in pluripotent cells; to program cells for regenerative medicine and cancer immunotherapy; to prevent parents’ transmitting serious genetic diseases to offspring; to correct mutations in […]
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The book of Ezekiel speaks to a group of deportees taken to Babylonia in 597 BCE, where they were resettled in the ancient equivalent of a rural refugee camp. The book depicts a community made up largely of former residents from Jerusalem, which Ezekiel overwhelmingly calls ‘Israel’. The book is in many ways a strange […]
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Deficit discourses assume that someone has a problem, or deficit, which needs to be mitigated. For example, deficit discourses might paint new students starting at university as lacking in the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in their degrees – or as empty vessels which need to be filled up by those responsible for […]
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In my last book, Luther, Conflict, and Christendom, which Cambridge published in 2018, I tried to find an organic way to understand the effects of context and circumstance on one of the great defining controversies of European religion, the conflict over Martin Luther. There never had been a condemned heretic who did as well as […]
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