Arts & Letters
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Sacred Spaces & Other Places
A Sense pf the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Christian Architecture and Artby R. Kevin SeasoltzContinuum, 394 pages,…
Body and Soul
The eight-hundredth anniversary of the death in 1204 of Rabbi Moses the son of Rabbi Maimon the…
Metaphysical Song
First principle, / Being’s pure act, / Infinite cause / Of finite fact...
The Watch and Ward Society
A book should not be judged by its cover; nor, perhaps, should it be judged by its…
The Mad Scientists’ Club
The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…
The Decent Drapery of Life
The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling By Gertrude Himmelfarb Ivan R. Dee, 288 pages,…
Religion and the Legitimate State
The idea of a social contract first makes its appearance in Plato’s Republic . Men are naturally…
RJN 2.8.06 There are many things
There are many things that need to be said about the Muslim reaction to those cartoons in…
Spirit in the Abstract
The last American painters of colossal spiritual ambition were such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett…
East of Eden
Fallen by David Maine St. Martin’s, 256, $23.95 The Perservationist by David Maine St. Martin’s, 240 pages,…
Advent Windows
Holy Holle, Mother Winter, / Shakes her eider till it flutters, / Till the ticking frees its…
RJN: 11.29.05 In the Washington…
In the Washington Post ( November 18 ), Michael Kinsley returns to the complexity of abortion politics.…
Walking the Sea
Walking the sea, I think of the small diaspora / of the hermit crab, and the unshackled…
Ordinary Idols
Death of an Ordinary Man: A Novel by Glen Duncan Grove. 320 pp. $13 paper. “As soon…
American Apocalypse
An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire By Michael Northcott I.B. Tauris. 220 pp.…
