First Links — 10.26.12

A Moral or a Scientific Critique?
Peter Blair, Mere Orthodoxy

Humanism Is an Impossible Dream
Andrew Brown, The Guardian

A Calvinist Response to Mourdock
Carlton Wynne, Reformation21

Augustine and the Three Purposes of Rhetoric
Fr.Michael Dominic O’Connor O.P., Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Putinism: Nationalism + Orthodoxy?
Max Fisher, Washington Post

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