Awards

• Winner of American Academy of Religion: Best First Book in the History of Religions 2009
• Winner of American Academy of Religion: Best First Book in the History of Religions 2009.
• Winner of John Templeton Award for Theological Promise 2008
• Winner of John Templeton Award for Theological Promise 2008.

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Elegant... Heresies, Lazier argues, represented an object of interest and inspiration. Yet his finely wrought analyses demonstrate that while all his subjects were indeed fascinated by the issues these heresies raised, they were less a source of inspiration than challenges in need of resistance, reworking, and overcoming. -- Steven E. Aschheim, Times Literary Supplement God Interrupted is intellectual history of a high order: eye-opening, skillfully wrought, rich in implication and touched with literary flair... [I]n writing of a pivotal moment in modern theology's history and its reverberations, he has not only made his case for its wide historical significance but also crafted a book that provoke those still struggling to determine the amplitude and frequency of the God's oft-interrupted call. -- Robert Westbrook, Christian Century [W]onderful, erudite, and beautifully written ... -- Anna Yeatman, H-Net The brilliant scholar Benjamin Lazier makes a convincing case that two religious heresies exerted far-reaching influence on Weimar-era thought well beyond the confines of religion... Lazier navigates the eddies and tributaries of these intellectual currents with astonishing clarity, erudition, confidence, and wit. This book is a landmark, a tour de force of both synthesis and original thought. -- Jewish Book World What Commonweal readers would find most rewarding about ... Lazier's intellectual history is that [it] succeed[s] in giving a sense of the organic environment ... in which the philosopher's intellectual life was rooted and from which it richly sprang. For the same reason, Commonweal readers might also find [this] book somewhat disturbing, for [it] serve[s] as [a] reminder of a deep anti-Semitism that, as the recent controversy over Pope Benedict's rehabilitation of the Society of St. Pius X indicated, has not been entirely uprooted from Christianity to this day. -- Bernard G. Prusak, Commonweal It is quite the conceptual task to bring together these three seemingly disparate thinkers under a coherent conceptual roof. The way that the gnosticism-pantheism dialectic threads together these three thinkers is impressive. It is perhaps no surprise that Lazier received the 2008 Templeton Award for Theological Promise. -- Clarence W. Joldersma, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith

Elegant... Heresies, Lazier argues, represented an object of interest and inspiration. Yet his finely wrought analyses demonstrate that while all his subjects were indeed fascinated by the issues these heresies raised, they were less a source of inspiration than challenges in need of resistance, reworking, and overcoming. -- Steven E. Aschheim Times Literary Supplement God Interrupted is intellectual history of a high order: eye-opening, skillfully wrought, rich in implication and touched with literary flair... [I]n writing of a pivotal moment in modern theology's history and its reverberations, he has not only made his case for its wide historical significance but also crafted a book that provoke those still struggling to determine the amplitude and frequency of the God's oft-interrupted call. -- Robert Westbrook Christian Century [W]onderful, erudite, and beautifully written ... -- Anna Yeatman H-Net The brilliant scholar Benjamin Lazier makes a convincing case that two religious heresies exerted far-reaching influence on Weimar-era thought well beyond the confines of religion... Lazier navigates the eddies and tributaries of these intellectual currents with astonishing clarity, erudition, confidence, and wit. This book is a landmark, a tour de force of both synthesis and original thought. Jewish Book World

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Benjamin Lazier is assistant professor of history and humanities at Reed College. He is a recipient of the 2008 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise.

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