September 2003
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September Letters
In “Ordaining Women: Two Views” (April), Sarah Hinlicky Wilson writes that “if the female cannot represent Christ…
Fighting the Noonday Devil
For most of the modern era, Christian apologists have emphasized the role of pride as the primary…
Harvard Springtime
On Sunday, April 27, one of the large lecture halls at Harvard Divinity School was two-thirds filled…
The Ironies of American Power
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan Knopf. 103…
The Right Double Negative
Margaret Simon, my sixth grade English teacher and grammar martinet, would have been shocked by this book’s…
Briefly Noted 55
Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians. By F. E. Peters. Princeton University Press. 285 pp. $28.…
The Sociality of Society
The Common Good and Christian Ethics by David Hollenbach Cambridge University Press. 269 pp. $23 paper It…
A Triple Agent in South Dakota
The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia By Richard Pipes Yale University Press. 153 pp.…
What’s So Funny
The Morality of Laughter by f. h. buckleyuniversity of michigan press. 239 pp. $29.95 Football, a famously…
Finding God in China
The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage by Norman Girardot University of California Press. 861…
War in a New Era
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing. That appears to be the operative maxim in some quarters…
Haeresis as Doctrinal Choice
Thomas Oden is one of the prime movers in the “confessional movement” to reclaim catholic substance for…
Catholics, Protestants, and the Meanings of Freedom
There are many books on the history of anti-Catholicism in America, but the achievement of John T.…
While We’re At It
• “Judeo-Christian.” The American Muslim Council and some others really don’t like the term. That’s understandable. In…
In Lieu of Memoirs
I don’t know what to call this. It is certainly not, in any ordinary sense of the…
Ave Maria
When we were born, our awestruck mother smiled. God gave her love to give the wondering child.…
Swallows
Joyously shuttling Back and forth Over the meadow Swift as thoughts Succeeding one another, Blue-feathered weavers Of…
Liturgical Dance Notes
Balletic slim with gently nubile curves And sweetly graced extensions of long limbs” They sway, step, bend…
Laodicea
I burn for all good heresy in this ungodly town. If I had any hope to raise…
