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Art and Soul
A Prayer Journal by flannery o’connorfarrar, straus and giroux, 112 pages, $18 If we could accurately map heaven,” Flannery O’Connor wrote in her newly published A Prayer Journal, “some...
Orthodoxy at a Hundred
G. K. Chesterton’s most renowned book is a hundred years old. Orthodoxy was first published in London by John Lane Press in 1908, and it has never gone out...
The Catholic Fantastic of Chesterton and Tolkien
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Murder in the Vicarage
The Lighthouse by P.D. James Knopf, 352 pages, $25.95. IN HIS CELEBRATED 1948 essay on detective fiction, “The Guilty Vicarage,” W.H. Auden argued that the appeal of crime novels...
Ivan Karamazov’s Mistake
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American Evangelical Christianity: An Introduction
With the death of Sydney Ahlstrom and the retirements of Robert Handy and Martin Marty from the classroom, Mark Noll has surely become our leading teacher-historian of American Christianity....
Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production
In accord with much of Scripture itself, the churches of the Reformation have emphasized the ear over the eye: fides ex auditu. The conviction that faith comes less by...
In Defense of Disbelief
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