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Keep It Real
An Avant-garde Theological Generation: The Nouvelle Théologie and the French Crisis of Modernityby jon kirwanoxford, 336 pages, $94 Jon Kirwan presents the Nouvelle Théologie as a movement with three...
David as Politician
The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuelby moshe halbertal and stephen holmesprinceton, 232 pages, $27.95 Jews and Christians ought to be proud of having a...
An Artist at Vatican II
The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer by louis bouyer translated by john pepino angelico, 272 pages, $19.95 T his memoir is a joy to read. Louis Bouyer (1913–2004) writes so...
The Beastly Paradox
Blaise Pascal spoke of the contradiction in every human heart. Man is an animal at once godlike and depraved. It is not that our dreams are great and our...
Freedom within the Disciplines
Faculty often quarrel over curricula. That’s as it should be. A curriculum, especially its core courses required of all students, is an educational institution’s constitution. To tell a young...
Manual for Love
Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faithby eve tushnetave maria, 224 pages, $15.95 I have almost no conscious interest in the possibilities of being gay and...
A New Apologetic
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by david bentley hart yale, 376 pages, $25 David Bentley Hart has written a classic of Christian apologetics. Works of apologetics are...
From Play to Freedom
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant contended that struggle is the motive force of human civilization. Through his successors, especially Hegel, the somewhat oxymoronic idea of...
Oriental Aspects of Occidental Faith
In my fifteen years in Aberdeen, the Old Aberdeen mosque went from a tiny to a flourishing enterprise, with Muslim men overflowing the building onto the surrounding streets. Between...
The First Rung of the Ascent
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