Protestantism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Protestant-Catholic-Jew, Then and Now
In the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to…
RJN: 11.10.05 If once having…
If once having shaken hands is meeting, I have met Philip Rieff. But he has been much…
Tonight is the annual Erasmus…
Tonight is the annual Erasmus Lecture, this year delivered by Dr. Timothy George, a Baptist and dean…
Law & Language
Law’s Quandary by Steven D. Smith Harvard University press, 222 pages, $45 Steven Smith takes us on…
Max Weber Goes Global
In the century since Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the book…
Let My People Go
Christians Versus Muslims in Modern Egypt: The Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality by S. S. Hasan Oxford…
A Denomination Called Anglican
Edward Norman, the canon of York Minster, has written many books. I suppose my favorite is House…
Bach, Hitler and the People Called German
Steven Ozment has done a remarkable thing in A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German…
The Evangelical Mind Today
The Evangelical Mind Today Mark Noll Ten years after the publication of The Scandal of the Evangelical…
Understanding Evangelicals
“If you want a friend in Washington,” said Harry Truman, “get a dog.” Hyperbole, to be sure,…
The Bishop of Bray
Heresy is better than schism, says the Episcopal bishop of Virginia. Bishop Peter J. Lee had for…
Martin Marty’s Martin Luther
We can be grateful that an editor of Viking’s Penguin Lives suggested that the series should include…
Gadamer & the Light of the Word
Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biographyby jean grondintranslated by woel weinsheimeryale university press, 512 pages, $35 It is reasonable…
Protestants, Catholics, and Mary
In 1937 a group of Catholic and Protestant theologians, the latter being mainly Reformed and Lutheran, launched…
The Episcopalian Preference
On August 5, 2003, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), following initial action…