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The Debasement of Tolerance

J. Daryl Charles

Along with its sibling “diversity,” “tolerance” has achieved the status of being our culture’s reigning virtue. Given its omnipresence, it is incumbent upon us to be morally serious about...

Are Catholics and Evangelicals Really Together?

J. Daryl Charles

Are We Together?:A Roman Catholic Analyzes Evangelical Protestantsby eduardo j. echeverrialectio publishing, 206 pages, $21.75 Despite the reforms initiated by Vatican II and the remarkable developments during the last...

Trading Truth for Unity

J. Daryl Charles

It is the issue that simply will not go away¯at least not in the post-Christian, post-consensus West. It is the issue that breeds a nasty recurring tendency to divide,...

The Myth of the “Evangelical Crackup”

J. Daryl Charles

In this hour of “new day” presidential politicking, it is difficult to distinguish prophecy from wishful thinking, especially among those in the electronic and print media. Take, for example,...

Reforming Natural Law

J. Daryl Charles

Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics by Stephen J. Grabill Eerdmans, 328 pages, $38 Stephen Grabill not only shows himself to be an astute observer of culture...

Losing Our Moral Theology

J. Daryl Charles

Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision by David F. Wells Eerdmans, 228 pages, $25 It is almost sixty years since Hans Urs von Balthasar,...

Beyond the Therapeutic State

J. Daryl Charles

It’s All the Rage: Crime and Culture By Wendy Kaminer Addison-Wesley, 292 pages, $22 “I feel,” wrote Freud, “that the irrational forces in man’s nature are so strong that...

Protestants and Natural Law

J. Daryl Charles

It is hard to make generalizations about Protestant theology, given the inherently splintered nature of Protestantism and the multiplicity of theological fads found within its borders. Nevertheless, people who...