Arts & Letters
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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…
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…
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…
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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
The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World by paul davies simon & schuster,…
Denomination and Church
Evangelical Reunion: Denominations And The Body Of Christ by john m. frame baker book house, 185 pages,…
The Wonders of Ordinary Language
Wittgenstein on Ethics and Religious Belief by cyril barrett, s.j. blackwell, 285 pages, $44.95 As is well…
The Pope and King Zog
The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century edited by joseph held columbia university press,…
Remembering Some of the Answers
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society by arthur m. schlesinger, jr. norton, 160 pages,…