Protestantism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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Toward an Alternative Theology: Confessions of a Non“Dualist Christian . By Sara Grant. University of Notre Dame…
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Theoretical and Political Life
Alexis de Tocqueville is an ines capable presence in the contemporary debate about the nature of the…
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David’s Secret Demons: Messiah, Murderer, Traitor, King By Baruch Halpern Eerdmans. 492 pp. $30 This book is,…
Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas
Reviewed by Edward T. Oakes By an odd coincidence (or is it really coincidence?), the two most…
While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers
Reviewed by George McKenna In the preface to While God Is Marching On , Steven E. Woodworth,…
The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad–Hatzalah Rescue Committee
This work illustrates something of both the best and worst of recent Holocaust scholarship. It is a…
A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation
A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation by peter singer yale university press, 70 pages, $22 Back…
Remembering Robert Casey
On the morning of his Commonwealth’s 1992 presidential primary, I got a telephone call from Pennsylvania Governor…
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by william morrow harper perennial, 672 pages, $19.68 Seeking to create,…
Southern Baptist Ghosts
During the past twenty years America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has undergone a major…
Good Restaurants in Gomorrah
We scratch where it itches and even the most casual observer of the Episcopal Church knows that…
Episcopalians: The Leftward Center
The modern Episcopal Church is the oddest of churches: scrupulous about maintaining tradition in matters of worship…
Evangelizing Liberalism
In the March issue of First Things , Benton Johnson, Dean R. Hoge, and Donald A. Luidens…
Taking Fundamentalism Seriously
Fundamentalisms Observed edited by martin e. marty and r. scott appleby university of chicago press, 872 pages,…
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…
