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Byzantium: The Apogee by john julius norwich knopf, 389 pages, $30 John Julius Norwich is a good…

The Argument From Design

John Farrell

The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World by paul davies simon & schuster,…

Denomination and Church

Peter J. Leithart

Evangelical Reunion: Denominations And The Body Of Christ by john m. frame baker book house, 185 pages,…

The Wonders of Ordinary Language

Edward T. Oakes

Wittgenstein on Ethics and Religious Belief by cyril barrett, s.j. blackwell, 285 pages, $44.95 As is well…

The Pope and King Zog

George Weigel

The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century edited by joseph held columbia university press,…

Remembering Some of the Answers

Peter L. Welsh

The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society by arthur m. schlesinger, jr. norton, 160 pages,…

On the Death of Literature

Carol Iannone

The Death Of Literature by Alvin Kernan Yale University Press, 240 pages, $22.50 Those who began to…

Baby Talk

Ryan Sayre Patrico

Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind by Roger Rosenblatt Random House, 194 pages, $20 Roger Rosenblatt…

Mystery and Desire

Gregory Wolfe

Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen HarperCollins, 179 pages, $20 Ron Hanen’s Mariette in Ecstasy is a…

The Protestant Ethos

Charlotte Allen

Protestants:The Birth of a Revolution by Steven Ozment Doubleday, 270 pages, $20 I am a Catholic, but I married…

Hauerwas Examined

Robert W. Jenson

After Christendom? by Stanley Hauerwas Abingdon Press, 192 pages, $12.95 Stanley Hauerwas once told me that After…

Don’t Bet Democratic

William McGurn

Minority Party: Why the Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond by Peter Brown Regnery Gateway, 350…

The Feminist as Paranoid

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Crown, 549 pages, $24 Look out: here…

Back to Our Future

Robin Darling Young

Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century…

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Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil by Hyam Maccoby Free Press, 213 pages, $22.95 Maccoby…