March 1994
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Letters—March 1994
Re: December’s First Things piece on Heidegger (“The People versus Martin Heidegger”): quite simply, both Heidegger and…
In the Case of John Boswell
Boswell, a professor of history at Yale, says that in the early Church there were few sanctions…
Evil: Back in Bad Company
Most Christian thinkers have viewed evil as a privation, a derivative reality, like a shadow. Shadows are…
Legal Ethics—Worlds in Collision
Chicago’s financial district and the seat of its city government are only a few blocks apart, yet…
Christian Conviction & Democratic Etiquette
According to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You…
The Homosexual Movement
I. The New Thing Homosexual behavior is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have…
The Fifties Without Soul
This is not a book review, it’s a complaint. I have been reading—and, I confess, enormously enjoying—David…
A New Heaven and a New Earth
“RE-imagining,” a conference “by women for women and men,” marked the midpoint of the World Council of…
Rites of Spring
Office of Wellness California State University at Poco To: The Poco Community From: Chelsea Rabinowitz-Hakamoto, Wellness Coordinator…
Cosmic Questions
Dreams of a Final Theory by steven weinberg pantheon, 338 pages, $25 In the second-to-last chapter of…
Buber Without Tears
The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue edited by nahum n. glatzer and paul mendes-flohr…
The Limits of Reconstruction
Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai M. Kaplan by mel scult wayne state university…
Doing Christian Philosophy
Reasoned Faith edited by Eleanor Stump echo point books & media, $34.95 A decade ago, the well-respected…
When the Maid Recognized Peter
She knows beyond a shadow / of a doubt it’s he / hunched between spokes...
Visiting Parkers Prairie
The Wilsons lived across the street, / and when kids knocked, / he gave us apples after…
Pathfinder
Past the mute brace of stone owls / tethered wide-eyed to the nave roof / of Saint…
Where the Sky Is
Not that light falls unbroken / like snow falling on snow / but that the sky flies…
Annunciation
What can I say to her? No Gabriel, I drive under an arch of trees dead in…
