On Genesis: A New Reading BRUCE VAWTER Doubleday, $10 [501 pp.] JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP The subtitle of this book may proveto be initially misleading. It does not signal a new departure...
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W HY KEEP on celebrating Christmas? For one thing, Christ was not born on December 25. This date in the Christian calendar goes back no further than the fourth century when it was taken over...
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MY ENTIRE SOIL IS A CRY The religious passion of Nikos Kazantzakis JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP "If I could turn you on, if 1 could drive you out of your wretched mind . . ." R. D. Laing At his death in...
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THE LANGUAGE OF THE TRIBE 0 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 Corrupting the word JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP In his apologia, A Question of Conscience, Charles Davis castigated the...
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SEX AND THE CHRISTIAN The erotic and the Scriptures JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • To explore the possibilities of a Christian theological understanding of the erptic would...
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