American Politics
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Relativism’s Moral Mission
In The Brothers Karamazov , the rationalist and unbelieving Ivan is visited by the devil, who lays…
God Save the Queen
On February 6, Queen Elizabeth II marked her diamond jubilee, an achievement that Great Britain will celebrate…
Religious Freedom Abroad
Seventy percent of the world’s population lives in countries that severely restrict religious freedom. Though largely ignored…
God’s Paradoxes
Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and Evangelical Christology ?by Edward T. Oakes Eerdmans, 471 pages, $44…
The Dangers of Anti-Sharia Laws
The law in several states now requires pro-life pharmacists to dispense the morning-after pill, Christian adoption agencies…
Things Not Caesar’s
Clarity and unanimity have not exactly been the hallmarks of the Supreme Court’s efforts to interpret and…
Briefly Noted
Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet ?by Donald Weinstein ?Yale, 400 pages, $38 n…
Spinoza Unreformed
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age ? by…
The Achievement of Wolfhart Pannenberg
Some theologians are mirrors of their time. The mid-twentieth century rises from the pages of Tillich as…
Thumblings
Far more than Once Upon a Time, / A lonely would-be single-mom / Wished for a child,…
Exporting Gay Rights
It was a telling speech, Hillary Clinton’s address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in recognition…
Hating the Teens We Indulge
A young woman in the house helps the once idealistic parent to see the error in assuming…
Converting the Canvas
Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art by timothy gorringe yale university press, 254 pages, $45…
A Disposition of Delight
After his death in 1990, Michael Oakeshott’s executors found dozens of unpublished but completed essays in the…
Evangelical Advantages
The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture by Christian Smith…