Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow’s interdisciplinary study examines belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the soc...

The authors present the “Narrative Imagination,” which they define as the act of teachers seeing within students a story not yet fulfilled. The teaching task, they suggest, lies in teachers engaging students’ stories in ways that acknowledge the teachers’ status without overpowering their students. The authors ask a central question: Recognizing that our work and lives are intermingled with the...

“Dear Dr. Grenz,” the letter began. “Please excuse the notebook paper and my handwriting. I would have used my computer and printer to write to you but due to my demise, ̃nancially, I’ve had to sell my printer to put food on the table. . . . Several weeks ago I was browsing the book shelf of a local Christian book store, when your book Betrayal of Trust [which deals with clergy sexual misconduct...

This text represents a summary of the major points developed in the book, Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics, and a brief overview of how the author understands the relation between religion, ethics, and the building of a virtuous community. The main points of the book involve the anatomy of “the moral event” that includes a breakdown of all the elements necessary to consider before one arri...

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE is a proposed agenda, not a developed theological treatise. It is concerned exclusively with work to be done, not with work already accomplished. It is an attempt to establish a context, to present a beginning to a doctrinal conversation that will occupy the Church for a long time. It should therefore be read as an attempt to look at a whole set of contemporary issues whic...

At its best, the emergence debate provides a helpful model of what religion-science scholarship can and should involve. (At its worst it represents the faddishness and bandwagon effects to which our field is also prone.) Those involved in the debate must pay close attention to concrete theories and results in the natural sciences. They rely on the careful conceptual distinctions that philosophe...