Pelikan, Sterling professor emeritus of history at Yale University and author of a number of respected books in the area of Christian belief and tradition (e.g., Jesus Through the Centuries), presents ...

And Jesus said unto the theologians: “Who do you say that I am?” They replied: “You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our ...

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book, by John Barton. Viking. 640 pages. $35. The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts, by Karen Armstrong. Knopf. 624 ...

One of the most attractive and productive approaches in biblical studies in recent years goes by the German term Wirkungsgeschichte, that is, the history of the Bible’s influence or effects. The books ...

A small red brick building in downtown Provo holds the connection between three great men of this millennium: the printing press. The Crandall Historical Printing Museum, founded 10 years ago by Louis ...

This has to be Karen Armstrong’s ultimate tome after all her learned, readable, fascinating and often mesmerizing books on religion in general, myth, Islam, the history of God and more. Beginning with ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. In writing How the Bible Became a Book, I began with a ...

Britain experienced a constitutional crisis earlier this month when Mr. John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, allowed a group of junior lawmakers to propose an amendment that required Prime ...