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...Well, modern Christians take it for granted that Christ really had a fleshly body. Not all ancient Christians agreed. Augustine, in the course of arguing for Christ's incarnation - this intimate relationship between divinity and humanity - explicitly parallels it to God's relationship with the Jews. He writes that Catholics and Jews stand as one community over against pagans and heretics, that Jesus and his apostles, including Paul, lived as Torah-observant Jews for the whole of their lives. And he urges that God himself would punish any king who tried to interfere with the Jews' practice of Judaism. These...
Does your history of Augustine and the Jews have any relevance for modern Christians and Jews? I think so. In a fairly dark history of Christian-Jewish relations, his theology turns out to be one of very few bright lights. All of these ancient Christian-Jewish interactions are more complex and interesting than are the received ideas about them. Our lives are still shaped by this history, so it's important to get it right. And if modern Jews and Christians, attempting interfaith dialogue, find in Augustine a precedent for common ground, that would make me really happy. It would...
...that literature is not a static entity, but rather a dynamic force that can effect change. For instance, in “Coming of Age in Shakespeare,” she broached issues regarding identity and sexuality as seen in Shakespeare’s plays and related them to modern cultural trends. “I want to emphasize the way literature can have an effect upon history and culture,” she writes in an e-mail to The Crimson. “Literature is not just a second-order phenomenon. It does cultural work in the world...
...pointed out that Americans are providing 55 percent of global resources to fight the fatal disease, which he called one of the greatest threats to modern society...
...premise of this book is a simple and direct one: that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare.” So does English and VES professor Marjorie Garber open her newest book, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture,” leaving no uncertainty as to exactly what she will teach her readers in the upcoming 326 pages. Upon first glance, this claim may seem broad and deterministic, but by the book’s end, Garber has tied every possible loose end, explored the selected plays to what seems their absolute fullest extent...