Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Real Reform?
Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty by Mustafa Akyol Norton, 352 pages, $25.95 In a…
Hope-Bridled Grief
The death of a loved one is excruciatingly painful, and it would seem wrong to ask moral…
Undone
The women knew their effort was in vain: No box of unguent, myrrh, or aloes could Prevent…
Unconservative Evangelicals
From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism by D. G. Hart…
Loving the Law
Christianity has long been susceptible to antinomian temptations. St. Paul’s pointed and often rhetorically violent rejections of…
Letters—January 2012
Purgatorial Conformity Gary Anderson (“Is Purgatory Biblical?” November) gives a capable defense of the doctrine of purgatory…
Libertarian Limits
On Tolerance: ? A Defence of Moral Independence by Frank Furedi Continuum, 224 pages, $22.95 The independent-minded…
Briefly Noted
A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in this Life and the Next ? by David…
Dream Vocation
It happened in a country like Tibet, My dream: I’d climbed a mountain pass and found Where…
A Complete Life
John Hall Wheelock, a minor twentieth-century poet—dubbed “the last romantic” in the title of his oral autobiography—captured…
The Evangelical Reform of Catholic Advocacy
The Catholic Church of the early twenty-first century is constantly being told that it must reform, both…
Winter Concert
At St. Progressive University We toil to demonstrate diversity. Before our concert, let me tell you how…
Natural Rights Trump Obamacare, or Should
Past the politics of Obamacare”the tawdry buying of votes, the spectacle of representatives in a republic passing…
On Listening to Haydn
“At the thought of God my heart leaps for joy, and I cannot help my music doing…
Briefly Noted
Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines 1740“1803 ?by Ulrich L. Lehner? Oxford 356 pages, $99 n As a…
