January 2004
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Against the Marriage Amendment
Your editorial statement “The Marriage Amendment” (October 2003) rests on two premises: 1) the definition of marriage…
Gadamer & the Light of the Word
Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biographyby jean grondintranslated by woel weinsheimeryale university press, 512 pages, $35 It is reasonable…
Catholicism as the Other
Martin Scorsese’s recent film The Gangs of New York takes us back to a time when religion,…
Diverse Diversities
Diversity can rightly be called a value-free term. All it does, ordinarily, is identify a condition of…
Jane Austen, Public Theologian
To call Jane Austen a public theologian is counterintuitive for two reasons: she does not seem much…
A More Public Yeshiva
The investiture of a university president—that is, the ceremony in which the authority and symbols of that…
Luther, the Movie
At least among sociologists of religion, if not journalists, it has become something of a cliché that…
Confessions of a Christian Historian
“History is God’s theatre, . . . God’s jousting place.” …
Immigration and the Common Culture
Mexifornia: A Study of Becomingby Victor Davis HansonEncounter, 150pp. $21.95 In his latest work, Mexifornia: A State of…
Baptizing Middle-Earth
J R. R. Tolkien once wrote ruefully, “Being a cult figure in one’s own lifetime I am…
Briefly Noted 16
The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought. By Rémi Brague.…
Sheer Extravagant Violence
Taras Bulbaby Nikolai Gogol, translated by Peter ConstantineModern Library. 11 pp. $17.95. Where Taras Bulba should be…
A Noble Failure
Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case For Classical Liberalismby Richard A. Epstein.University of Chicago Press. 311 pp.…
From Myth to History and Back
Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Troublesome Geniusby William R. Shea and Marliano Artigas.Oxford University…
The Culture Wars Go International
The defenders of judicial activism, properly understood as the judicial usurpation of politics, count on wearing down…
“Catholic Sectarianism”
Intelligent and good people can end up taking wrongheaded positions, which is a point underscored by Paul…
Martin Marty’s Martin Luther
We can be grateful that an editor of Viking’s Penguin Lives suggested that the series should include…
Protestants, Catholics, and Mary
In 1937 a group of Catholic and Protestant theologians, the latter being mainly Reformed and Lutheran, launched…
While We’re At It
• Philip Jenkins is not swept off his feet by Jedediah Purdy’s new book, Being America ,…
