Forum, Westar’s academic journal
Forum 2016 Individual Subscription
This purchase provides access to the two electronic issues of Forum 2016. Issues come out in April and October. You will receive a password and page link with your receipt.
Forum publishes the scholarship emerging from Westar Institute Seminars. Included in the pages of the Forum are many of the seminar papers that inform the deliberations and conclusions of the Seminars. Recommended for scholars and advanced students of religion. An annual subscription includes two electronic issues.
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Issue 5,2 (Fall 2016)
God Seminar: Opening the Discussion on God and the Human Future
Contending with Postmodern Hermeneutics and Biblical Criticism: Thinking Philosophical Theology with the Jesus Seminar (David Galston)
A Short Précis of The Weakness of God and The Insistence of God (John D. Caputo)
Moving Words: Theology and the Performance of Proposing (Joseph Bessler)
Plato and Christian Belief (John Kelly)
Hylotheism: Life as a Slide Show (Jarmo Tarkki)
Issue 5,1 (Spring 2016)
Reflections on the Category Gnosticism
Questioning the Category of Gnosticism for the Rewriting of the History of Early Christianity: An Appreciation and Extension of the Work of Karen King (Hal Taussig)
But What Do We Call It?: The Secret Revelation of John and Crises of Categories (Maia Kotrosits)
What Categories Are Left?: A Conversation with Karen King’s What is Gnosticism? (Bernard Brandon Scott)
“Are you, or have you ever been, a gnostic?”: Caricatures, Blacklists, and Understanding the Aspirations and Lives of Real People (Michael Williams)