May 2001

Bible Babel
The Public Square “If I had the authority,” declared the leader of an evangelical parachurch empire, “I’d…
The Meaning of Christian Unity
In “Who Really Cares About Christian Unity?” (January) , Bruce D. Marshall holds up the Jansenists as…
Not Outrageous Enough
Not outrageous enough. This is my ultimate assessment of the proposal George Marsden puts forward in his…
Pride and Patriotism
A great many Americans, especially those of a certain age, cannot hear the German language being spoken—by…
G. E. M. Anscombe: Living the Truth
G. E. M. Anscombe, widely recognized as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, died…
The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad–Hatzalah Rescue Committee
This work illustrates something of both the best and worst of recent Holocaust scholarship. It is a…
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
My worn and heavily marked copy of the original hardback edition of Peter Brown’s biography of St.…
The Ways of the Will
The publication of an expanded and revised version of Leslie Farber’s The Ways of the Will nearly…
Briefly Noted 33
In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929“1963. Edited and with an introduction…
An Almost Christian Fantasy
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Knopf, 326 pages, $26 The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Knopf,…
Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews
Caveat Emptor! This book looks like a bargain, three books for the price of one. It contains…
Poetry
In certain lights, our garden looks almost” not habitable, exactly, but like a garden, all sudden jonquils,…