Theology

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The Transcendent in the Mundane

Jill P. Baumgaertner

Ordinary Time by a. g. mojtabai doubleday, 223 pages, $17.95 A.G. Mojtabai’s nonfiction work, Blessed Assurance, won…

The Perfectly Raised Consciousness

Richard John Neuhaus

Reflecting on the rash of outraged protests against allegedly sexist, racist, and homophobic slurs erupting in our…

Fox Days

Mark Jarman

Dull, restless mornings, crawling with hungers— / To have something to do and to have done it.…

Editorial: Legalize Drugs?

The Editors

No sooner had George Bush declared a “war on drugs” and appointed William Bennett to lead the…

Separationism for Religion’s Sake

Samuel Rabinove

At a conference last fall on “Christians, Jews, and the Free Exercise of Religion” sponsored by the…

Forward to the Seventies

John Strietelmeier

As I write these words, it is exactly one week before my seventieth birthday”“the days of our…

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…

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— /…

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…