Nomi Stolzenberg (USC): Political Theology with a Difference. Jordan J. Ballor (Acton): Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Two Kingdoms, and Protestant Social Thought Today. From Review of Biblical Literature, Daniel A. Smith review of Jesus’ Twofold Teaching about the Kingdom of God by Barry Smith; Halvor Moxnes and Ole Jakob Loland review A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul by Stanislas Breton; and Francoise Mirguet reviews The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Literature by William Loader. While telling us little about Jesus's actual marital status, the “Jesus's wife” papyrus shows how religions create their own authorised history. Top Christian scholar Philip Jenkins says the Bible is more violent than the Koran. From Jesus sect to Imperial faith: Eric Ormsby reviews Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter Brown and Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea AD 30-325 by Geza Vermes. Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung on their book Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism.
