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Angels and Ministers of Grace
No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus by susan r. garrett yale university press, 333 pages, $30 When Gregory the Great arrived in heaven, according to...
The Dark Night of Mother Teresa
On October 19, 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) will be beatified in Rome. During the three-and-a-half-year investigation into her cause, no less thorough for having been hastened by...
Hamlet in Purgatory
Reviewed by Carol Zaleski This is a brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare’s plays, above all Hamlet . The...
In Defense of Immortality
In 1904, less than six years before his death, William James made a revealing statement in response to a questionnaire circulated by his former student James Pratt. To the...
