Theology

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History According to the Village Atheist

James Turner

The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century…

Mueca a la Muerte: Defiance in a Grimace

Anthony Kerrigan

That the world should end in an orgy of pain was inconceivable at my conception in the Panama…

Honor in the University

Stanley Hauerwas

We live in a time when ethics has become big business: medical schools hire medical ethicists, business…

Paraphrase of Some Famous Lines in Spanish Literature

Anthony Kerrigan

I will become dust and you will become dust and ashes our tongues and ashes our eyes but, ever…

Theology Through the Looking Glass

Richard E. Wentz

In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Alice has been having quite a run through the Garden…

Leaping Headfirst Into the Smith Trap

Phillip H. Harris

Richard John Neuhaus has joined the chorus of those singing a lament to the death of religious…

“J” in Bloom

Joseph Blenkinsopp

The Book of J translated from the hebrew by david rosenberg interpreted by harold bloom grove weidenfeld,…

Race and Urban Politics

Lawrence M. Mead

The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by jim sleeper w.…

Populist Protestantism

Michael Cromartie

The Democratization of American Christianity by nathan hatch yale university press, 312 pages, $25 In 1802 a…

The Theses of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Editors

News stories of recent months underscore the fact that the place of Martin Luther King, Jr. in…

Back to Fundamentals

Joseph A. Varacalli

The Fundamentalist Phenomenon: A View from Within; A Response from Without edited by norman j. cohen eerdmans,…

A Government for Real People

John Strietelmeier

As a geographer, I learned years ago that my fellow countrymen are not only uninformed about the…

Complex Phenomena

Jill P. Baumgaertner

The rules of chaos are simple: A mountain is never a perfect cone. A lake is never really a…

The Do-It-Yourself Catholic KiddieKism*

Paul V. Mankowski

Q. Who made you?  A. (Melissa Murphy, Age 10): Who makes me you should say! I co-creates me…

All You Needed to Know You Didn’t Learn in Sunday School

Richard John Neuhaus

The Search Institute is located in Minneapolis, and it succeeded in inducing the Lilly Endowment and six…