Matthew Clemente is a lecturer in the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College specializing in existentialism, philosophy of religion, and contemporary Continental thought. He is associate editor of the Journal of Continental Philosophy and Religion and author of Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion.

Matthew Clemente

Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia. His most recent books are Barefoot (Notre Dame University Press, 2018) and Poetry and Revelation (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is currently preparing a set of Gifford Lectures to deliver at the University of Glasgow.

Kevin Hart

Letter to the Editor: Matthew Clemente’s Response to Kevin Hart’s “A Return to God After God”

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

Richard Kearney’s Anatheistic Wager

The Art of Anatheism

A Return to God After God

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Critical Theory

Arts of Wonder

In Wondering Admiration Before the World

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

The Givenness of Things: Essays

Profoundly American

When God Spoke Greek

Of Gods and Languages: On “When God Spoke Greek”

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

A Never-Ending Quest

<h4>Andrei Codrescu is the author of Messiah, a novel, and Whatever Gets You through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments. His most recent books are Bibliodeath: My Archives (with Life in Footnotes) and So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems.</h4>

Andrei Codrescu

Costica Bradatan is a&nbsp;Professor of Humanities at Texas Tech University and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author or editor of 10&nbsp;books, most recently <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Ideas-Dangerous-Lives-Philosophers/dp/1472525515/ref=la_B001JSB3U8_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1427817248&amp;sr=1-1">Dying for Ideas. The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers</a> (Bloomsbury, 2015) and In Praise of Failure&nbsp;(forthcoming, Harvard UP), has written for The New York Times, The New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Dissent Magazine, The Boston Review, The Daily Beast, Christian Science Monitor, The Globe &amp; Mail, and other similar venues. Bradatan serves as the Religion/Comparative Studies Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Costica Bradatan

<h4>Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also the author of a book about religion and early cinema called The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era (Columbia University Press, 2019), and his film, television, and literary criticism has appeared in Slate, Film Quarterly, J19, PMLA, The New Republic, and other venues. He is also the co-founder — with Jane Hu, Evan Kindley, and Lili Loofbourow — of the “Dear Television” column. He teaches in the English Department and the American Culture Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis.</h4>

Phillip Maciak

On Reza Aslan’s “Zealot”: A Symposium

Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia. His most recent books are Barefoot (Notre Dame University Press, 2018) and Poetry and Revelation (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is currently preparing a set of Gifford Lectures to deliver at the University of Glasgow.