... Haldeman and Donald Boisvert. In discussing gay hagiolatry, the chapter looks at Haldeman's theological essays on the intimate male body and Boisvert's defense of the gay eroticization of Jesus Christ. androgynous Assaf David Augustine passim Antony and body male Broughton James confessant male...

.... So the Jewes were married to the Law first, as to a husband, and were in subjection to it; but now being dead to the Law, they are married to Christ, Rom[ans] 7:4. When this vaile which was a signe of their subjection and blindnesse shall be taken away, then they shall behold Jesus...

...The focus on this chapter is a comparison of the figure of Jesus in the thought of Martin Buber and the early twentieth-century Hasidic master Shmuel Bornstein of Sochaczev. Buber was well-known for his positive assessment of Jesus as an important figure in the history of Judaism. With others...

..., and apocalypse in an age of interimperial rivalry, especially during the first five decades of the sixteenth century. It looks at debates on the identity of the expected Muslim Messiah and his relationship to Jesus. Aside from his central role in the drama of the Last Days in both Muslim and Christian traditions...

...Beginning with the Aristotelian dictum that “the good is what all desire,” this chapter argues that for Thomas the good is Jesus Christ and the Triune God. So understood, this principle founds his recognition of any creaturely virtue wherever it may be found. For Thomas, all things – including...

... Trinity Jesus Christ scientia Scripture to gr asp thomas's conception of virtue so that we can understand his claims about pagan virtue, it is tempting to begin with his explication of Augustine's definition of virtue. That definition is succinct and elegant. He endorses it in the two texts...

..., the incarnated Christ-figure Manuel Ruegg; and David Carrow, the protagonist of “A Coast-Range Christ”—all embody this figure. They are all evocations of or allusions to the historical Jesus. However, it is only with the mature Jeffers of the 1920s and 1930s that these avatars are discarded, and the archetype...

... of national sacrifice. Extending back over two millennia, it unearths retellings of biblical and classical narratives of sacrifice, both enacted and aborted, voluntary and violent, male and female: Isaac, Ishmael, Jephthah's daughter, Iphigenia, Jesus. The book traces the birth of national sacrifice out...