December 1999
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Liberalism Without a Left, Conservatism Without Delusions
The Public Square Liberalism Without the Left, Conservatism Without Delusions In the view of conservatives, liberals are…
Shakespeare’s Millennium
Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 98 (December 1999): 17-24. When debate about an artist’s merit no longer…
Two Languages of Salvation: The Lutheran-Catholic Joint Declaration
One of the central themes of the New Testament, if not the central theme, is the way…
John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism
As Time and other premillennial makers-of-lists have discovered in recent months, there is no lack of candidates…
Moses at the Met
The twentieth century an age of religious art? It wouldn’t seem so. In the ranks of painters,…
The Unheavenly Urban Philosopher
Most of us, in our effort to make sense of life, begin at home: we try, in…
What Aquinas Really Said About Women
In several passages in the Summa Theologiae and elsewhere, Thomas Aquinas asserts that the inferiority of women…
Don’t Write About Race
The cardinal rule of writing about race is: don’t. There are several reasons why. First, it is…
History as Tragedy
A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939 by david vital oxford university press, 944 pages, $100.08…
Briefly Noted 161
Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium by donald e. miller university of california press, 253…
The Middle East Without Tears
Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age by r. stephen humphreys university of…
Hauerwas v. Hauerwas v. Hauerwas
Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified by stanley hauerwas abingdon, 264 pages, $45 In one sense…
Revisionism Revisited
Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment by raoul berger harvard university press, 384 pages,…
The Holy Feminine
Catherine of Siena by giuliana cavallini, o.p. continuum, 292 pages, $39.28 The Flowing Light of the Godhead…
