Review of An Introduction to Christian Theology

A review of An Introduction to Christian Theology by Richard J. Plantinga, Thomas R. Thompson, and Matthew D. Lundberg

Review of Richard J. Edlin\u27s The Cause of Christian Education

In his revised The Cause of Christian Education, Richard J. Edlin has offered an ambitious and helpful survey some of the philosophical and practical questions that anyone in Christian education will, at some point, ask

Discussion: "A significance test for the lasso"

Discussion of "A significance test for the lasso" by Richard Lockhart, Jonathan Taylor, Ryan J. Tibshirani, Robert Tibshirani [arXiv:1301.7161].Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOS1175B the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

[Review of] Richard J. Fapso. Norwegians in Wisconsin

The pamphlet opens with a description of Norway, the land and its agricultural economy, the increased population that resulted from the industrial revolution, and the development of a cash economy. Three pages of photographs and a map of land use in Norway supplement this section. The fixed classes of the agricultural system included a large number of border or freeholders and husbands or cotters who considered themselves free but who were often landless despite their free status. In 1825, Norwegian migration to America began, by 1 835 it had picked up speed, and by 1860 nearly 70,000 Norwegians had emigrated to the U.S. It was largely a migration of agricultural people driven by conditions of land, climate, and the pressures of the Industrial Revolution to search for better lives in the United States

Menorah Review (No. 58, Spring/Summer, 2003)

The Quest for the Historical Rabbi / Peter J. Haas -- Giants Are Still Human / Kristin Swenson -- The Feminist Corner and the Reference Shelf / Sarah Barbara Watstein -- The Core of Jewish Tradition / Dan Miron -- On Early Synagogues / Matthew Schwartz -- Drunk on Heaven / Richard Sherwin -- Noteworthy Books

Women and Priestly Ministry: The New Testament Evidence

In August 1976 the Executive Board of the Catholic Biblical Association of America appointed a committee of prominent scholars from its membership to study and report on the Role of Women in Early Christianity. This Committee developed into a Task Force whose members are Madeleine Boucher, Richard J Dillon, John R Donahue, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Eugene H Maly, Sandra M Schneiders, and Richard J Sklba. The statement is a précis of the ongoing discussion of the Task Force. Their conclusion: an examination of the biblical evidence shows that there is positive evidence in the NT that ministries were shared by various groups and that women did in fact exercise roles and functions later associated with priestly ministry; that the arguments against the admission of women to priestly ministry based on the praxis of Jesus and the apostles, disciplinary regulations, and the created order cannot be sustained. The conclusion we draw is that the NT evidence, while not decisive by itself, points toward the admission of women to priestly ministry