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From Religion to Politics
The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848–98by dominic greenfarrar, straus and giroux, 464 pages, $35 The nineteenth century, for all but the most literal-minded, begins with the French...
Secularism as Sexism
Sex and Secularismby joan wallach scott princeton, 240 pages, $27.95 While traveling in Spain about twenty years ago, I attended the nearest Ash Wednesday Mass I could find. Upon...
Döllinger’s Unquiet Grave
The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Ageby thomas howardoxford, 312 pages, $45 John Henry Newman aside, Ignaz von Döllinger...
A Castle of Thought
The Fragility of Consciousness: Faith, Reason, and the Human Goodby frederick lawrenceuniversity of toronto press, 456 pages, $95 Hans-Georg Gadamer wrote Truth and Method at the age of sixty,...
The Da Vinci Code All Over Again
Last Thursday, my Facebook feed alerted me to a fascinating piece of investigative journalism, published the previous day by The Atlantic. The article details Ariel Sabar’s exposure of the...
Celibacy as Political Resistance
Just weeks before the 2012 election, in a discussion held in the gymnasium of a small Midwestern Catholic college, the college’s president asked everyone to stand, turned to the...
An Interview with René Girard
René Girard is one of the most important Christian intellectuals of our time. Beginning with the publication of Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1961), Girard’s thought began making waves...
