Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Why Universities Went Secular
The Secularization of the Academy edited by george m. marsden and bradley j. longfield oxford university press,…
Divorce, Communitarian Style
On Divorce by louis de bonald translated and with an introduction by nicholas davidson transaction press, 198…
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Theology and Dialogue edited by bruce d. marshall university of notre dame press, 302 pages, $14.95 paper…
Scripture for the Gender-Correct
The Women’s Bible Commentary edited by carol a. newsom and sharon h. ringe westminster/john knox press, 396…
The Limits of Populism
Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality by jeffrey bell regnery gateway, 202 pages, $21.95…
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Evangelical
Portofino by frank schaeffer macmillan, 256 pages, $18 Frank Schaeffer’s latest book, a novel, provides many signs that…
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The Founders of the Western World:A History of Greece and Romeby michael grantscribner’s, 351 pages, $27.50 Michael…
Friendship and Its Discontents
The Norton Book of Friendship edited by Eudora Welty and Ronald A. Sharr Norton, 622 pages, $25…
The Unfathomable Mystery of Autism
There’s a Boy In Here: A Mother and Her Son Tell the Story of His Emergence from…
The Death of the Goddess
In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth by tikva…
The Cultural Middle Ground
The Making Of Middlebrow Culture by joan shelley rubin university of north carolina press, 416 pages, $34.95…
The New Class Reconsidered
Hidden Technocrats: The New Class and the New Capitalism edited by hansfried kellner and frank w. heuberger…
Getting the Name Right
Speaking the Christian God: The Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism edited by alvin j. kimel…
Journey Into Autumn
Once again, we are on the road early,driving to see our sonwrestle with cancer for gold.Clouds fall…
The Perils of Historical Positivism
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by robin lane fox knopf, 478 pages, $27.50…
