Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Beginning of Wisdom
And from There You Shall Seek by Joseph Soloveitchik Ktav, 230 pages, $29.50 Near the end of…
The Face of Civilization
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart Yale, 249 pages, $28…
Briefly Noted — 08/09
Helen Barrett Montgomery: The Global Mission of Domestic Feminism by kendal p. mobley baylor, 420 pages, $39.95…
The Social Gospel of Charles Dickens
“I hold my imaginative capacity,” Charles Dickens once wrote, “on the stern condition that it must master…
A Master of Horror
In his Poetics , Aristotle observed that some works of art have a paradoxical effect. They represent…
Cold War Religion
Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945“1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden Cambridge University Press, 368…
Sanctifying Islam
The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective by Gregory Baum University of Notre Dame Press, 178…
A Tale of Two Cities
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark Doubleday, 354 pages, $26…
Time Management
Luther in the year he spent as Junker Joerg in Wartburg towers, translated the New Testament to…
Slouching Towards Pelosi
The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960by shaun a. caseyoxford university, 261 pages, $27.95…
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Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and Salvation by Stephen J. Nichols Brazos,…
After Sappho
Hesperus, you reunite What dawn divides from one another” The businessman and the suburb, The couple and…
Good Grief
You said it, Charlie Brown. Though all we get is grief, They only knock us down To…
Letters—March 2009
Stem Cells Sell In “Stem Cells: A Political History” (November 2008), Joseph Bottum and Ryan T. Anderson…
Whatever Happened to Susan Pevensie?
It’s one of childhood’s great narrative shocks. Susan Pevensie is no longer a friend of Narnia. The…
