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Anticipation
“With clouds descending,” says the book,the day of his appearing, thus,might, just as any other, lookat first like when from broken skies to usa sudden ray of sun shines...
The Neo-Confucian Bluff
Against Political Equality:The Confucian Caseby tongdong bai princeton, 344 pages, $39.95 Just Hierarchy:Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the Worldby daniel a. bell and wang...
Man, Lion, Calf, and Eagle
The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus by francis watson baker academic, 224 pages, $24.99 Ever since the pathbreaking work of Brevard Childs...
The Christ of Marc Chagall
It recently became widely known that the favorite paintingnof Pope Francis is the White Crucifixion by Marc Chagall. The newsnstirred up considerable speculation and controversy. Chagall, born Moishe Segalnin...
God’s Patient Stet
It is a sobering thought that Richard Wilbur, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1957, 1989) who was named poet laureate of the United States in 1987, is now ninety...
