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Next week in Budapest -- I'll be signing copies of I Judge No One & saying a few words about it in conversation with Eric Hendriks-Kim, at Atlantisz Publishing House & Bookstore in the heart of the city. There will be wine; do join if you can.

Very pleased to be talking at All Souls, Oxford, later this week about my new book on the political life of Jesus. Plus a conversation moderated by Fitzroy Morrissey, who's done noted work on the figure of Jesus in Islamic traditions. If you're in town --

A few shots of last week's lecture on "The Strangeness of Jesus: Spinoza & the Gospels", at the University of Antwerp. A beautiful evening for me, & a stimulating conversation with Dennis Baert. Many thanks to my hosts at UCSIA & the Institute of Jewish Studies, & to all who came out.#Spinoza #Jesus #philosophy #gospels

I am very pleased to see Alexander Faludy's thoughtful new review of I Judge No One -- "fluent and thought-provoking"; "Dusenbury’s work matters, for he skilfully draws the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith closer together."

It's a polemical image, but Spinoza doesn't seem to think much of a "robot" (automaton) which "speaks without mind & sense (sine mente et sensu)". - Theological-Political Treatise, 13.6

Great conversation last night at the Danube Institute launch of my new book, I Judge No One. Hard questions & brilliant insights from political theologian György Geréby, & political philosopher David Martin Jones. Many thanks to those who organized, & all who joined!

I am very pleased to be joining Joseph Verheyden and some of his colleagues later this month to give a lecture on my new book at the University of Leuven's Faculty of Theology: "Questions about the Crucified, from Celsus to Nietzsche." Wednesday, 22 February, 16.00, Maria-Theresia College.

"I desire the better, I follow the worse." - Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.20-21 "I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do." - Paul, Romans 7.18-19 "Although he sees what is better for him, he is compelled to follow the worse." - Spinoza, Ethics IV pref.

I am very pleased to see I Judge No One reviewed by Nicholas King, SJ - formerly of Campion Hall, Oxford - in The Tablet. He finds it "admirably attentive to the text of the gospels"; its Jesus "both different & strange"; & he concludes: "There is much to reflect on here."