May 1996
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Against Christian Politics
The Public Square An election year does strange things to people. For instance, Father John Kavanaugh’s helpful…
African Slavery 1996
A slave is a person perverted into a thing,” wrote Coleridge as the movement to stop the…
A Harvest of Evangelical Theology
Holy Scripture. Revelation, Inspiration, and Interpretation. By Donald G. Bloesch InterVarsity Press, 384 pages, $24 .99 Theology…
The Future of Belief
I could start by announcing, “Western epistemology is in crisis!””but most readers would find the line pretentious.…
The Ninth Circuit’s Fatal Overreach
On March 6 in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, a decision came…
All That Lives Must Die
Good Hamlet,” begs his mother at the audience’s first sight of the black-clothed prince, “cast thy nighted…
Where Are You, Adam?
An angel came to me and told me that all the great questions are short. There are…
The America We Seek: A Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern
A Troubled Conscience 1. Twenty-three years after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton…
The End of Neoconservatism
Everybody, it seems, is pronouncing the death of neoconservatism”including, most significantly, the two people most responsible for…
Patenting Life: No
You do not have to be a religious zealot or a scientific Luddite to oppose the patenting…
Patenting Life: Yes
An item I had once thought to be a theological non-issue has over the last year been…
Teaching Christian Humanism
Once we’ve denounced the balderdash that all too often passes for teaching in contemporary American colleges, there…
Integrity
Integrity By Stephen L. Carter Basic Books, 261 pages, $24 I am probably the wrong person to…
The Rise of Neoconservatism
The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994 By John Ehrman Yale University Press, 241 pages, $27.50…
The Death of Satan
The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil By Andrew Delbanco Farrar, Straus…
Briefly Noted — 05/96
The Life Of Adam Smith By Ian Simpson Ross Oxford/Clarendon Press, 495 pages, $35 Professor Ross, who…
The Remaking of a Marxist
The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Culture War By Eugene D. Genovese University of Missouri…
Jesus Matinees
Half past two Wednesdays Catholic ”a fair number”would rise up in silence when their special buzzer jolted…
“Dread is the Language by Which We Disguise Our Deeds”
by which we pacify with euphemism our planned transgressions, boundaries shifting convenience into correct countries is the…
Eclipse
You have taken away my names. Last night the loon was crying for you, one call after…
