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Essays

Sin’s Political Lessons

James R. Rogers

“Sin’s Political Lessons” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on…

After Progressivism

Yuval Levin

“After Progressivism” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on in…

Renewing Dogmatic Theology

Bruce D. Marshall

Catholics in the last fifty years or so have almost completely ceased to do dogmatic theology. Save…

My Failed Atheism

Mark Bauerlein

In thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and…

The Selma Analogy

R. R. Reno

It’s easy to see why gay activists invoke the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s,…

Opinion

Payne’s Books of Job

Michael C. Legaspi

At the center of Alexander Payne’s moral vision stands the Little Human Being. His clever, contemporary comedies—most…

Remembering John Hick

Gavin D'Costa

Explain, John Hick once asked me in an undergraduate class, the traditional axiom that my church holds,…

Letters

Various

Reviews

Briefly Noted

Various

Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity by Raymond Tallis Acumen, 388 pages, $29.95 n…

Material God

Phillip Cary

Jesus Christ, Eternal God:Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter by stephen h. webb oxford, 368 pages,…

Dreams of Heaven

Jeffrey A. Smith

The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by john gray farrar, straus and…

Faith’s Social Vision

David Pignato

The World as It Could Be: Catholic Social Thought for a New Generation by thomas d. williams…

Dogma’s Defender

Reinhard Hütter

Theological Tractates by erik peterson, edited and translated by michael j. hollerich stanford, 296 pages, $24.95 Germany’s…

Christian Europe?

Andrea M. Maccarini

Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societiesby marcello peraencounter, 224 pages, $23.95 A…

Poetry

Icons

Daniel Hoffman

No one now expects the rough Hilarity of Cruikshank ”The flight of hands like larks Beneath the…

Divine Mercy Sunday

Timothy Murphy

The parish doorbell rings. When I descend the stair nobody is there, only a bag that sings…

The Enlistee

Timothy Murphy

This wrestler isn’t ready yet for college, instead he’s shaved his head for the Marines. It isn’t…

On the Square

Two Deaths

Thomas Albert Howard

As I write these paragraphs, a friend of mine is treading through his last twenty-four hours of…

Liberalism After Liberalism

Wilfred M. McClay

Liberalism After Liberalism” is one of three addresses given to a symposium on “After Liberalism,” put on…