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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson explores the impact of paganism and early Christianity on today's Christians.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson examines how early Christian polemic caricatured pagans and describes the real relationship between Greco-Roman religion and early Christianity.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson argues that Christianity over time came to resemble the broad range of pagan/gentile religions, but that Judaism pulled back from its involvement with Hellenism.
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Professor Luke Timothy Johnson examines the influence of paganism on Christianity.
A boom in the demand for illegal motorbikes in Gaza is fuelling a dangerous – and sometimes deadly - smuggling trade orchestrated via complex tunnels all the way from Egypt.
The Independent talks to George Bush about the “surreal afterlife” of being an ex-American president, dog poop and being mistaken for himself.
Displeased Indonesians have been venting via Facebook outraged that a statue of a young Obama, “who is not an Indonesian national hero”, has been installed in a Jakarta park.
Some of the terrorism suspects being held at the U.S naval base Guantanimo Bay in Cuba will be transferred to Illinois state prison, a government official has said.
The soot emitted when fossil fuels are burned, known as “black carbon”, could have a bigger impact on climate in some parts of the world than greenhouse gases, new research reveals.
Australians are outraged at government plans to censor the internet after trials found that filtering a blacklist of banned sites didn’t slow the web down.
Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” button has mystified users by leading to an unexplained countdown clock – with no obvious purpose…
An ice-making kit which urges drinkers to recreate the sinking of Titanic using ice cube replicas of the ship and surrounding icebergs has been branded “sick” by consumers.
Thousands have been evacuated from the areas surrounding the Mayon volcano in the Philippines after it began oozing lava and shooting plumes of ash.
Iran may have tested a key component of atomic bombs as recently as 2007 according to diplomats – a claim that undermines Iran’s insistence its nuclear development is civilian.
There's always a lot of chaos and confusion surrounding a physical assault made on a political figure, but yesterday's attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has the potential to […]
Textbooks--and perhaps, uniquely, economics textbooks--are not known for their literary brilliance. Why should they be? Does math need metaphor? In college when we think about numbers we think about things […]
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With its history of reactionary policies, the FDIC has played a significant role in a variety of industry failures.
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According to John Allison, the market system did not fail in 2008 and did not need governmental intervention, as this sort of intrusion was responsible for the panic in the […]
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There’s a reason why economies have based their currencies on something tangible since at least the Roman Empire. As John Allison explains, if we don’t do the same, high government […]
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The task of setting salaries lies completely with board members and the marketplace; the only real question is how to get boards to better gauge comprehensive performance.