November 1992
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The Innovationist Edge
Civilization, it has been observed, depends upon obedience to the unenforceable. Similarly, it depends upon the observance…
A New American Compact: Caring about Women, Caring for the Unborn
The following statement appeared as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times during the Democratic Convention…
Tradition and Creativity in Theology
The ideas of “tradition” and “creativity” seem at first glance to be opposed and incompatible. Tradition says…
Tradition and Creativity in Culture and Law
A well-known account of creativity sets the scene for a celebrated act of creation, and a bleak…
Tradition and Creativity in the Writing of History
For the historian, as for the philosopher, the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is being…
The Disputed Legacy of Reinhold Niebuhr
Besides being the quincentenary of Columbus’ voyage, 1992 has also been the centenary of the birth of…
On Marrying, Again
Several years ago I wrote an essay on marriage, an essay filled with conviction and certainty. I…
The Priests of Culture
The New Testament’s epistle to the Hebrews was written to Jewish converts in the early Church who…
The Perils of Historical Positivism
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox Knopf, 478 pages, $27.50…
The Unfathomable Mystery of Autism
There’s a Boy In Here: A Mother and Her Son Tell the Story of His Emergence from…
The Death of the Goddess
In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth by Tikva…
The Cultural Middle Ground
The Making Of Middlebrow Culture by Joan Shelley Rubin University of North Carolina Press, 416 pages, $34.95…
The New Class Reconsidered
Hidden Technocrats: The New Class and the New Capitalism edited by Hansfried Kellner and Frank W. Heuberger…
Getting the Name Right
Speaking the Christian God: The Holy Trinity and the Challenge of Feminism edited by Alvin J. Kimel…
Journey Into Autumn
Once again, we are on the road early,driving to see our sonwrestle with cancer for gold.Clouds fall…
The Grand Canyon
From the eastern rim Jorgé throws a rockinto the deep and we hear nothing in return.An American…
Of All Saints, and One
Dancing, in mind at least, toward a stage of untested embrace— Virginal spirits grasped in the…
