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The lost liberal art of theology

The inaugural issue of the Journal of Analytic Theology is out, including William J. Abraham (SMU): Turning Philosophical Water into Theological Wine (and a response by Marc Cortez and a reply by Abraham); and Eleonore Stump (SLU): Athens and Jerusalem: The Relationship of Philosophy and Theology. From Themelios, Michael J. Ovey (Oak Hill): From Moral Majority to Evil Disbelievers: Coming Clean about Christian Atheism; and Gerald R. McDermott (Roanoke): Will All Be Saved? Jennie Cain reviews Dialogues between Faith and Reason: The Death and Return of God in Modern German Thought by John H. Smith. James G. Murphy reviews The Golden Cord: A Short Book on the Secular and the Sacred by Charles Taliaferro. George Scialabba reviews Is God Happy? Selected Essays by Leszek Kolakowski. James V. Schall on what is impossible to God. Tara Isabella Burton on why you should study the lost liberal art of theology, even if you don't believe in God. Helen De Cruz on her qualitative study of attitudes and religious motivations of philosophers of religion. R.R. Reno on the Christian intellectual. When religion had a mind: Peter E. Gordon reviews Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza: Reason, Religion, and Autonomy by Carlos Fraenkel. God’s existence theorem is correct: Two mathematicians formalized the work of Kurt Godel. Alan Jacobs reviews Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense by Francis Spufford.