Articles & Essays
The Revolt That Rewrote the Church — Tony Smith, Prepared Heart, 18/04/2026. The Bar Kokhba Revolt (135 AD) proved more consequential than the Temple’s destruction (70 AD): Jewish Christians were expelled from Jewish communities, Gentiles took over the Jerusalem church, and the plain-sense Jewish hermeneutic was replaced by Alexandrian allegorical methods (Philo, Clement, Origen). This shift enabled replacement theology and corrupted Christian-Jewish relations for centuries — and explains why modern biblical disagreements are rooted in foundational interpretive assumptions, not just methodology.
Reading Genesis Like an Ancient Text — Approaches to reading Genesis as ancient Near Eastern literature: historical context, authorship, literary structures, and theological claims as products of their time
Post-Christian Christianity — Mark Clavier on the deployment of Christian language and imagery in contemporary politics, emptied of Christian substance and demands. > “A faith that demands nothing offers nothing. It hasn’t the resources to contest a post-Christian Christianity that’s emotionally coherent, culturally fluent, and entirely clear about its aims.”
[Jesus: “I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life”](/jesuswaytruthlif e) — Greek etymology reinterpretation of John 14:6. Argues institutional Christianity mistranslated hodos (lived practice), aletheia (unconcealed reality), and zoe (fullness of life) to create exclusive boundaries, when the original meaning described a universal spiritual path accessible to anyone.
Books
- Quando Nosso Mundo se Tornou Cristão — Paul Veyne
- Domínio — Tom Holland
- Crentes — Juliano Spyer
- Aqueles da Bíblia — André Daniel Reinke
- Nós e a Bíblia — André Daniel Reinke
- Os Outros da Bíblia — André Daniel Reinke
- Paixão por Israel — André Daniel Reinke, 2025
- História do Cristianismo
- Jerusalém
Related Notes
- Bible Study — Methods and approaches to biblical interpretation
- C.S. Lewis
- Saint Augustine
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire