Receiving Dr. Julia Watts Belser’s book, Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole was a remarkable moment. I have been living with my own disabilities for quite some time and have dedicated a good portion of...
Max Botner has produced a very stimulating monograph on Davidic messianism in the Gospel of Mark. He develops the insight of Donald Juel and Matthew Novenson that the scriptures, and indeed a relatively small set of them, provided the basic ore for Second Temple...
In the thought-provoking book, “New Interventionist Just War Theory: A Critique,” Jordy Rocheleau expands upon the Walzerian just war theory by engaging with a wide array of just war theories, spanning from neo-traditionalism to cosmopolitanism. The...
There are many many times when reading Julia Watts Belser’s Loving Our Own Bones—certainly the best book on theology and disability that I know, and one of my favorite three works of theology published in this century—when I have gasped. I should say something about...
Max Botner has made clear that the study of Jesus as a messiah like David in the Gospel of Mark should not be approached by focusing on occurrences of the name “David” and the phrase “son of David” alone. Further, he has shown that a socio-linguistic approach to the...
