Volume 4 (2018) – Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology

Editorial The Challenges (and Opportunities) of “Secularization”	Henry S. Kuo
2017 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Graduate Theological Union When Jesus Spoke Yiddish: Translating the New Testament for Jews	Naomi Seidman
*Distinguished Faculty Lecture Response*	Margaret R. Miles
2018 Reading of the Sacred Texts Lecture, Graduate Theological Union Can We Do That? Reading Sacred Texts As They Read Us	Barbara Green, OP
*ARTICLES:*
Kierkegaard’s Johannes Climacus on Faith and Reason	Derek Nutt
“Without Evidence … But Not Groundless”: *The Scientific Basis of Christian Apologetics*	Camilo Peralta
Irreligion in America: A Justification for a New Normative Framework	Hannah Pheasant
The Vanishing Messiah and the Advent of the Messianic Society: A Critical Reading of the Gospel of Mark	HyongJu Byon
A Charitable Warp for the Weft of Will: Building the Framework for a Theoanalytic Typology	Gordon Gilmore
BOOK REVIEWS:
Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving Splendor by Mark McInroy	Jaesung Ryu
Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor by Collin Hansen	Joshua Privett

Editorial A Declaration from Holy Hill: A Christian Call for Cmpassion and Justice	BJRT Editorial Staff
2018 Luther Lecture, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Luther Against Luther: Scripture and Christian Anti-Semitism Past Realities and Future Remedies	Kirsi I. Stjerna and Brooks Schramm
*ARTICLES:*
Ritualizing Bodies: Exploring Religious and Political Affects	Shea Watts
A Gift from Death: Necropolitics and Handing Over in James Cameron’s “A Time of Terror”	Anthony Jermaine Ross-Allam
The Feeling of Whiteness: Privilege and the Illusion of Invulnerability	Kai Moore LeFranc
Leonardo Boff and the Social Trinity	Jaesung Ryu
*The Self-Emptying God(dess): Death and Salvation in the Iconographies of the Crucifixion and* Chinnamasta**	Laura M. Dunn
BOOK REVIEWS:
The Church: Presbyterian Perspectives by Donald McKim	Henry S. Kuo
Cain, Abel, and the Politics of God: An Agambenian Reading of Genesis 4:1-16 by Julián Andrés González Holguín	Anthony Ballas