Aug/Sept 1992
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Christianity in the Mirror of Jewish Thought
What do modern Jewish thinkers make of Christianity? Is Christianity in their eyes still the oppressive, pervasive…
Victims Unlimited
In this highly individualistic age, it is probably safe to assume about every victim what Tolstoy at…
Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions
I We have witnessed in recent years the flowering of various Christian pluralistic theologies calling for unequivocal…
Christ, Culture & the New Europe
The Synod of European bishops that took place in Rome last year engaged a wide range of…
Who You Are
After two full years of publication, we thought it time to survey our subscribers and the findings…
Why Pluralism Needs Monism
“Vatican II,” George Weigel writes in Freedom and Its Discontents, “posed a basic challenge to the many…
Evangelicals and Economic Development
Earlier this year I was in charge of “debriefing” a small group of evangelical college students who…
The Pope, the Emperor, and the First Amendment
Every year during the winter quarter my yearlong course in the history of Christianity reaches the eleventh-century…
Mystery and Desire
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen HarperCollins, 179 pages, $20 Ron Hanen’s Mariette in Ecstasy is a…
The Protestant Ethos
Protestants:The Birth of a Revolution by Steven Ozment Doubleday, 270 pages, $20 I am a Catholic, but I married…
Hauerwas Examined
After Christendom? by Stanley Hauerwas Abingdon Press, 192 pages, $12.95 Stanley Hauerwas once told me that After…
Don’t Bet Democratic
Minority Party: Why the Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond by Peter Brown Regnery Gateway, 350…
The Feminist as Paranoid
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Crown, 549 pages, $24 Look out: here…
Back to Our Future
Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century…
Briefly Noted 204
Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil by Hyam Maccoby Free Press, 213 pages, $22.95 Maccoby…
Plantation
Too late for the tour and the history lesson,too late in the season on this southern plantation,and…
Sacrifice
This slender stem—the wax-imprisonedsoulof candle’s being—Ignited,starts theslowdescenttoward death;Convertingits encasing fleshto molten dropsthat hanglike tears upon a cheek,the…
