Luke Timothy Johnson

Luke Timothy Johnson is emeritus Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and a frequent Commonweal contributor.

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'Unnatural Frenchmen'

Claire Cage traces how the celibacy of the clergy in France went from being contested by the philosophes, to being proscribed by the state in the period of terror.
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'Pagans'

O’Donnell’s distinctive point is that “paganism” is entirely an invention of Christianity—a definition of the “other” that paralleled fourth-century Christianity.