December 1998
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Religion and (or?) Freedom of Conscience
Copyright (c) 1998 First Things 88 (December 1998): 2-8. Correspondence Religion and (or?) Freedom of Conscience In…
A Passion for Truth: The Way of Faith and Reason
The Public Square Nearly 130 years ago the First Vatican Council, in a document called Dei Filius,…
C. S. Lewis in the Public Square
The first thing I should say is that I am not a Lewis scholar. The second thing…
Contraception: A Symposium
Harold O. J. Brown Thirty years ago Pope Paul VI issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae (“Of Human…
Should the Church Repent?
In his 1994 apostolic letter “On The Coming of the Third Millennium,” Pope John Paul II said…
Liberating Academic Freedom
It is often said that every book is autobiographical. That certainly is true of mine. About a…
Hazards of New Fortune
We’d done business over the phone for years, but I hadn’t actually seen her for at least…
The Gayest Story Ever Told
It can’t be easy to write a play that is at once boring and offensive. But that…
Onward, Christian Soldiers?
Does Christianity Cause War?by david martinoxford university press, 226 pages, $56 The question posed by the title…
Doing Theodicy
Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evilby john g. stackhouse, jr.oxford university press, 190…
The Good Casuist
The Way of the Lord Jesus, Vol. 3: Difficult Moral Questionsby germain grisezfranciscan, 927 pages, $35 This…
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Staring into Chaos: Explorations in the Decline of Western Civilization by B. G. Brander Spence, 418 pages,…
What is Man?
The City of Man and Modern Liberty and Its Discontents: Selected Writings of Pierre Manentby pierre manenttranslated…
Is the Left Good for Jews?
Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil Libertiesby stuart svonkincolumbia university press, 364 pages,…
The Decline of Marriage
From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Traditionby john witte, jr.westminster/john knox, 315…
