John Barton is a former professor of holy scriptures at the University of Oxford and the author of A History of the Bible: The Books and Its Faiths. Q: Just how reliable is the Old Testament as an ...
In our study of the faith, we can never, ever do away with the Old Testament. In studying the New Testament we must remember the words of the catechism, “...the books of the Old Testament bear ...
To give a proper perspective on the New Covenant sacrament of reconciliation instituted by Christ, we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column ...
This lines up with how the Bible presents anointing in the Old Testament, where kings and priests would often be anointed for a very specific task that God had called them to do. The oil of anointing ...
“Clothes matter — especially when you get old,” he says. Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open ...
The bestselling author of “Presumed Innocent” has a new masterful legal thriller. A judge named Rusty finds his peaceful retirement disrupted when his troubled stepson and his girlfriend ...
Two very different books examine the reigns and legacies of Victoria and Elizabeth II. By Geoffrey Wheatcroft Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other ...
Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the ... This was reasonable, given the C.I.A.’s history, but Coll indicates that it was exactly the wrong fear.
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