Theology

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In Favor of Muddling Through

Thomas Sieger Derr

In American political rhetoric–stump speeches, newspaper editorials, party propaganda–the terms “left wing” and “right wing” are used…

A Reader’s Guide to English Furniture: The Eighteenth Century

Debora Greger

Forget the romance purveyed of windowseats, knocked as they be by the winds that skim drowned lawns…

Why Wait for the Kingdom?The Theonomist Temptation

Richard John Neuhaus

Paul Tillich famously wrote about ethics in the heteronomous, autonomous, and theonomous modes. To summarize all too…

The Necktie Gap

David Brooks

The Resurgent Liberal: And Other Unfashionable Prophecies by robert reich random house, 303 pages, $19.95 There are…

Finding the Diary

Robert B. Shaw

Settling the estate, the lawyer said. It seemed too grand a way of putting it— bills to…

Glimpsing the Transcendent

Nathan A. Scott, Jr.

Real Presences by george steiner university of chicago press, 236 pages, $19.95 Of the major literary critics…

Religion and Science

Robert L. Spaeth

The Galileo Affair:A Documentary History edited and translated with an introduction and notes by maurice a. finocchiaro…

Edwards and America

Amy Plantinga Pauw

America’s Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards by robert jenson oxford university press, 224 pages, $26 At…

Hope for South Africa?

John H. Chettle

A Future South Africa: Visions, Strategies, and Realities edited by peter l. berger and bobby godsell westview…

Homosexuality and the Churches

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square Rapidly changing attitudes toward Christian ministry reflect a cultural incursion into the life of…

The Bishops and the Middle East

Michael Wyschogrod

The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Statement on the Middle East, adopted unanimously during the bishops’ fall 1989 bicentennial…

Germans against Hitler: The Witness of the White Rose

David Novak

It is hard to imagine a Jew today who would come to Germany without a profound sense…

Discerning . . . to a Point

Gilbert Meilaender

The Giving and Taking of Life: Essays Ethical by james turnstead burchtaell university of notre dame press,…

Where’s the Glory?

Craig M. Gay

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture by randall balmer oxford university…

The Bad Old Days

Paul Hollander

Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties by peter collier and david horowitz summit books, 352 pages,…