About the CSER Review
Beginning in the fall of 2006, CSER has been busy producing a brand new publication: The CSER Review is a bi-annual journal of religious studies offering a wide variety of critical opinions on key religion issues while working to remain carefully balanced between the faithful and the skeptical. Unlike scholarly journals, the style of the Review is deliberately down-to-earth and intended for the general reader—that mythical beast who is interested in what’s happening on the religion front, but is more interested in the casual than the seriously technical approaches to the subject.
That doesn’t mean the Review doesn’t take religion seriously. At no time in history has religion played such a critical role in so many areas of urgent concern. Whether discussing stem cell research, the right to life, the faith of America’s politicians or recent developments in the argument for God’s existence, the Review is concerned with bringing you leading and authoritative voices.
In the first issue, essays by John Dominic Crossan, Gerd Lüdemann and R. Joseph Hoffmann provide a sane postscript to the Da Vinci Code furore over the question of Jesus’ attitude toward marriage. The second issue of the journal featured a special section on CSER’s new Jesus Project (with pieces by James Robinson and Robert Price) as well as articles by leading ethicists and bioethicists on the question of ensoulment and the “right” to life.
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hope that you will become a reader of the Review and a friend of the
Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion today!
