Arts & Letters

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Rehabilitating Truth

Paul J. Griffiths

Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions by joseph cardinal ratzinger ignatius. 290 pages. $15.95. May…

Covenant and Civility

Alan L. Mittleman

For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity by Irving Greenberg…

Freedom’s Surety

Jean Bethke Elshtain

American Providence: A Nation with a Mission by Stephen H. Webb Continuum. 173 pp. $22.95 Perhaps Stephen…

Muffling the Clash

Lawrence A. Uzzell

The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations in Not Inevitable by Michael Novak Basic.…

John Wesley: A Biography

Edward T. Oakes

John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism, proves to be a biographer’s dream come true. The man…

Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul

Gregory Wolfe

Tony Hendra’s Father Joe was given a front page review in the New York Times Book Review…

More on Milosz

Richard John Neuhaus

Father Jeremy Driscoll’s moving and instructive reflection on Czeslaw Milosz in this issue was written shortly before…

What’s Upstairs

Francis Beckwith

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity By Nancy Pearcey Crossway, 479 pp. $25 It is…

The New York Intellectuals, Again

Richard John Neuhaus

A lot of people don’t read Comment, a magazine published by the Work Research Foundation in Mississauga,…

Ture Mercy and Charity

Amy L. Sherman

True Mercy and Charity Saving America:  Faith-based Services and the Future of Civil Society by Robert Wuthnow …

The Things That Remain

Sean Curnyn

The Things That Remain Dylan’s Vision of Sin. by Christopher Ricks. Ecco  517 pp. $26.95 reviewed by…

September Letters

Various

War and Statecraft Reconsidered In “War and Statecraft: An Exchange” (March), George Weigel is right to distinguish…

Briefly Noted — 6/04

Various

The military chaplaincy in the West is the subject of this compilation of essays by historians and…

Of Time and the River

Various

Of Time and the River I love the way the river rollicks here, and how it sluices…

Jesus in America

J. A. Gray

The America of the title is the United States, from colonial times to the present. The Jesus…