Arts & Letters

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Handbook of Religion and Health

Paul R. McHugh

The tradition of the scientific handbook as a concise, accessible source of validated information emerged in the…

The Trinity in German Thought

David Vincent Meconi

In writing both of his Catechisms of 1529, Martin Luther attempted to highlight the trinitarian structure of…

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The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by Elliott Abrams. Rowman & Littlefield.…

Auden and the Limits of Poetry

Alan Jacobs

By the mid-1930s, W. H. Auden was the most famous and most widely imitated young poet in…

Bible Babel

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square “If I had the authority,” declared the leader of an evangelical parachurch empire, “I’d…

Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy

Kevin M. Doyle

Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy by susan zuccotti yale university press,…

Calvin: A Biography

T. M. Moore

Calvin: A Biography by bernard cottret eerdmans, 376 pages, $16.91 Bernard Cottret’s Calvin: A Biography is the…

By Nature Equal

Robert T. Miller

By Nature Equal: The Anatomy of a Western Insight by john e. coons and patrick m. brennan…

Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis

Walter Sundberg

Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis by ian kershaw w. w. norton, 1168 pages, $40.10 The question Ian Kershaw faces…

A Bishop’s Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth–Century Flanders

Charlotte Allen

A Bishop’s Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders by craig harline and eddy put…

Beware of Counterfeit

Joseph W. Koterski

Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics by jean porter eerdmans, 399 pages, $19.80…

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Democracy in Americaby alexis de tocqueville, translated, edited, and with an introduction by harvey c. mansfield and…

The Mind of the Universe: Understanding Science and Religion

Ernan McMullin

The Mind of the Universe: Understanding Science and Religion by mariano artigas templeton foundation press, 384 pages,…

Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion

Steve Bruce

Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion by rodney stark and roger finke university of…

The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism

Edward T. Oakes

The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism by phillip e. johnson ivp, 192 pages, $16.48…