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Letters

The Meaning of Christian Unity

Various

In “Who Really Cares About Christian Unity?” (January) , Bruce D. Marshall holds up the Jansenists as…

Essays

Bible Babel

Richard John Neuhaus

The Public Square “If I had the authority,” declared the leader of an evangelical parachurch empire, “I’d…

L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality?

Leon R. Kass

You don’t have to be Jewish to drink L’Chaim, to lift a glass “To Life.” Everyone in…

What’s God Got To Do with the American Experiment?

Timothy Burns

The Liberal Uses of Religion What’s God Got To Do with the American Experiment? Edited by E.…

Narrating Ethics

Alan Jacobs

Leading and Leadership Edited by Timothy Fuller. University of Notre Dame Press 264 pp. $25 cloth, $15…

The Christianity of Philosophy

Peter Simpson

The title of this essay is meant to be rather startling, and more startling than the phrase…

Opinion

Not Outrageous Enough

Michael J. Baxter

Not outrageous enough. This is my ultimate assessment of the proposal George Marsden puts forward in his…

Pride and Patriotism

James Nuechterlein

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

John M. Dolan

G. E. M. Anscombe, widely recognized as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century, died…

Reviews

The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad Ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee, 1939–1945

William D. Rubinstein

The Response of Orthodox Jewry in the United States to the Holocaust: The Activities of the Vaad…

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

Robert Louis Wilken

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography by peter brown university of california press, 576 pages, $32.99 My worn…

The Ways of the Will

Barbara J. Moore

The Ways of the Will: Selected Essays, Expanded Edition by leslie h. farber basic books, 352 pages,…

Briefly Noted 33

Various

In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929–1963 edited and with an introduction…

An Almost Christian Fantasy

Daniel P. Moloney

The Golden Compass by philip pullman knopf, 326 pages, $7.34 The Subtle Knife by philip pullman knopf,…

Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews

Thomas F. X. Noble

Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews by james carroll mariner books, 756 pages, $11 Caveat Emptor!…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

In certain lights, our garden looks almost” not habitable, exactly, but like a garden, all sudden jonquils,…