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Author: R. Joseph Hoffmann

R. Joseph Hoffmann, Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion Chair and CSER Review Editor, is a historian specializing in the social and intellectual development of early Christianity. Trained at Harvard, Oxford, and Heidelberg, Hoffmann was Senior Scholar of St. Cross College, Oxford, from 1980–1983 and has taught at the University of Michigan, Oxford, the American University of Beirut, and Wells College.

The Religion Department
One God
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 5
August / September 2007
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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The Religion Department
One God
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 4
June / July 2007
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The Religion Department
The Jesus Project
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 3
April / May 2007
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Academy of Humanism News, The Religion Department
Speaking of God…
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 1
December 2006 / January 2007
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Free Inquiry Volume 27, No. 1
December 2006 / January 2007
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Op-Ed
Spiritual Libertarians
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 6
October / November 2006
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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The Empty Tomb
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 4
June / July 2006
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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The Cartoons and the Crisis
Mutt, Jeff, and Muhammad
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 3
April / May 2006
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Why Hard Science Won’t Cure Easy Religion
Free Inquiry Volume 26, No. 3
April / May 2006
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Faith and Violence
Jesus, the Defense of Marriage–and Other Unspeakable Acts
Free Inquiry Volume 25, No. 3
April / May 2005
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Academy of Humanism News
Jesus Through the Looking Glass: An Update on the Who-Was-Jesus Movement
Free Inquiry Volume 14, No. 1
Winter 1993 / 1994
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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A Eupraxopher’s Agenda: Humanism and Religion
Free Inquiry Volume 10, No. 3
Summer 1990
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Religion in the Public Schools?
Free Inquiry Volume 10, No. 1
Winter 1989 / 1990
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Editorial
Theological Reflections in a Traffic Jam
Free Inquiry Volume 08, No. 4
Fall 1988
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Media & Film
“The Last Temptation of Christ”
Free Inquiry Volume 08, No. 4
Fall 1988
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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The Origins of Christianity: A Guide to Answering Fundamentalists
Free Inquiry Volume 05, No. 2
Spring 1985
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Rediscovering Christian Origins
Free Inquiry Volume 05, No. 1
Winter 1984 / 1985
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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Biblical Criticism and Its Discontents
Free Inquiry Volume 02, No. 4
Fall 1982
R. Joseph Hoffmann
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