Bøker av Brian Lennon

Mary Magdalene might be the most understood person in the story of Jesus. Yet, Mary was also the first person to whom Jesus appeared after his resurrection. It was Mary who first took the good news of his world-changing resurrection to the apostles. What can the story of Mary Magdalene and her relationship with Jesus, the ''Gardener'', tell us about the future of women in the Church? Examining the spiritual significance of Mary''s relationship to Jesus, the trans-historical significance of the resurrection and the contemporary question of the role of women in the Church, Mary Magdalene and the Gardener is a meditation on a world changed by one word; the word that made the resurrection real was ''Mary''.

This work blends poetry with narrative, ethnography with autobiography, and philosophy with literature. It begins and ends with meditations on place, the first an excavation of the underground depths of New York City and the conclusion a travelogue of Italy.

Cryptology, the science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the study of languages, are typically understood as separate domains. But Brian Lennon contends that computing's humanistic applications, no less than its technical ones, are marked by the priorities of security and military institutions devoted to fighting wars and decoding intelligence.