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How does “communion” matter for language theory? A first Reading of Charles Taylor’s The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity
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What Has Political Monotheism to do with Democracy?
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Religion as an Object of Study in the Academy
2015 Download and Read
How to think about the Bible in the 21st Century – A Primer for the Nonconfessionally Curious
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Knowing the Self in Some Gnostic and Valentinian Writings
A paper written for David Brakke, University of Chicago, 2012. Download and Read
The Liberal Jesus: A River of Traditions, Saint Paul and the Redeemer
October 16, 2011 Download and Read
A radical-democratic trickster and a fool for Christ in conversation
“A radical-democratic trickster and a fool for Christ in conversation, Bruce Woll. Review of Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles, Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian,”American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Volume 30/2, May 2009. Download and Read
“Faith” As Fetish
I suggest that “Crazy for God is a story about growing up in a Christian Right subculture, with habits, rituals, language and beliefs that will strike many Americans as distinctive and as peculiar as exotic Philippine headhunters. It is the ultimate anthropological field report, told by an insider, of what it was like “being raised…
A Chaos Theory of Christian Origins
This article draws on two books by the Canadian historian, Donald Akenson, whose significance for how to understand the origins of Christianity is, in my judgment, ground-breaking, though to date it has been almost completely ignored by biblical scholars. 2006. Download and Read