Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia. His books include Barefoot (Notre Dame University Press, 2018) and Poetry and Revelation (Bloomsbury, 2018). A new book, forthcoming from Chicago University Press, is the volume of his Gifford Lectures, Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation.

Kevin Hart

Containment, Reform, and Abuse: On John T. McGreevy’s “Catholicism”

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

Religion

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Matthew Clemente is an author, philosopher, husband, and father of five. He lives and teaches in Massachusetts.

Matthew Clemente

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

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; Religion

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

<a href="http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/cbradata">Costica Bradatan</a> is a professor of humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University in the United States and an honorary research professor of philosophy at University of Queensland in Australia. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Dying-for-Ideas-Costica-Bradatan/9781472525512">Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers</a> (Bloomsbury, paperback, 2018) and In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (Harvard University Press, 2023). His work has been translated into more than 20 languages, including Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Farsi. Bradatan also writes book reviews, essays, and op-ed pieces for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, Aeon, The New Statesman, and other similar venues.

Costica Bradatan

<h4>Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) is the TV editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;His essays have appeared in&nbsp;Slate,&nbsp;The New Republic, and other venues, and he's co-founder of the Dear Television column. He's the author of&nbsp;The Disappearing Christ: Secularism in the Silent Era&nbsp;(Columbia University Press, 2019) and&nbsp;Avidly Reads Screen Time&nbsp;(New York University Press, 2023). He teaches 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 books include Barefoot (Notre Dame University Press, 2018) and Poetry and Revelation (Bloomsbury, 2018). A new book, forthcoming from Chicago University Press, is the volume of his Gifford Lectures, Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation.