Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
C. S. Lewis Then and Now
Wesley Kort’s C. S. Lewis Then and Now is extraordinarily puzzling. It contains many fresh and valuable…
Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul
In the current literature on the connections between science and religion, it is rare to find a…
Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City
History dominates the Israeli“Palestinian conflict. Selective memories on both sides produce partial narratives that deny or obscure…
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The 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law. English translation and scholarly apparatus by Edward N. Peters. Ignatius.…
The Mess That Is Marriage
I had occasion recently to ponder the service folder from a wedding. In many respects this wedding…
Frontiers of Legal Theory
Reviewed by Robert T. Miller Judge Richard A. Posner is for many the most brilliant jurist of…
Letters—December 2001
In ” Will All Be Saved? ” (Public Square, August/September) Richard John Neuhaus uses an interesting argument…
Stanley Fish’s Milton
How Milton Worksby stanley fishharvard university press, 616 pages, $35. Stanley Fish zooms across the firmament of…
Handbook of Religion and Health
Handbook of Religion and Health by harold g. koenig, dana e. king, and verna benner carson oxford…
Letters—November 2001
Alas, First Things seems intent on remaining merely a scholarly magazine hovering above the fray on the…
The Trinity in German Thought
The Trinity in German Thought by samuel m. powell cambridge university press, 290 pages, $53 In writing…
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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
By the mid-1930s, W. H. Auden was the most famous and most widely imitated young poet in…
Bible Babel
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
Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy by susan zuccotti yale university press,…