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Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Mind. Edited by G. A. Rawlyk. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 542 pages, $55.The twenty-eighth work in a series on religious history published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, this book is a significant contribution to the increasingly lively study of . . . . Continue Reading »

A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington’s Farewell Address and the American Character. By Matthew Spalding and Patrick J. Garrity. Rowman & Littlefield. 217 pages, $27.95.Political scientists who study only the Constitution typically claim America’s founding derives from the analysis of . . . . Continue Reading »

Islam and Religious Dialogue The tenor of Richard John Neuhaus’ Public Square essay on the book The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam by Bat Ye’or (“The Approaching Century of Religion,” October 1997) seems entirely misdirected if the intention is to encourage understanding as . . . . Continue Reading »

In the spring of 1994, a distinguished group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed statement, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium” (FT, May 1994). That statement, commonly referred to as “ECT,” noted a growing . . . . Continue Reading »

Near Unto God by Abraham Kuyper; adapted by James C. Schaap. Eerdmans, 235 pages, $14 paper. Recent years have seen a massive upsurge of interest in Christian spirituality—what Richard Mouw calls, in the preface to this book, the “spirituality bust.” But it has centered primarily on the . . . . Continue Reading »

The San Francisco Solution? Thank you for publishing Archbishop William J. Levada’s “The San Francisco Solution”(August/September), on that city’s domestic partnership ordinance and the Catholic Church’s response. It was a masterpiece of good Catholic thinking as applied pastorally to a . . . . Continue Reading »

Plato on the Human Paradox by Robert J. O’Connell, S.J. Fordham. Fordham University Press, 162 pages, $30 cloth, $15 paper. Like Santayana’s famous dictum that those who don’t read history are condemned to repeat it, Whitehead’s line that all philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato is . . . . Continue Reading »

Power, Not Principle In “Debriefing the Philosophers” (June/July), J. Bottum puts special emphasis on the following statement by assisted-suicide advocate Ronald Dworkin: “In the meantime, the public would have had the opportunity to participate more fully in the argument about principle; . . . . Continue Reading »

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible by Howard Clark Kee, Eric M. Meyers, John Rogerson, and Anthony J. Saldari Cambridge University Press, 616 pages, $45. To paraphrase the very book to which this is the companion: of the making of books on the Bible there is no end, and the reading thereof is a . . . . Continue Reading »

Breast Cancer and Abortion I’d be the last one to defend the ideological bias of the New England Journal of Medicine (Brind, “Abortion, Breast Cancer, and Ideology,” May), but if breast cancer was increased by induced abortion, then one would expect to see it epidemic in places like Russia, . . . . Continue Reading »