March 1994
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March Letters 104
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 of fire-light, a disciple of jaded spirit begging…
Visiting Parkers Prairie
“Time lost its absolute character . . .” –Einstein The Wilsons lived across the street, and when kids…
Pathfinder
Earth rotates on its axis faster in September than in March. –Chicago Standard News Past the mute…
Where the Sky Is
Not that light falls unbroken like snow falling on snow but that the sky flies open like an eye.…
Annunciation
What can I say to her? No Gabriel, I drive under an arch of trees dead in…
