November 1998
America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life
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The Pro-Life Movement Then and Now
Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars. By Cynthia Gorney. Simon & Shuster. 575…
A World of Our Own Making
The Public Square A World of Our Own Making Born in February 1997, Dolly is two years…
What Would Newton Do?
Sir Isaac Newton was a man of many talents. After his great scientific discoveries he had a…
Original Sin: A Disputation
No doctrine inside the precincts of the Christian Church is received with greater reserve and hesitation, even…
The Supreme Court in 1998
When the Supreme Court packs up its bags at the end of June each year, court watchers…
Music for the End of Time
What is this century’s greatest piece of music? Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring? Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron? Britten’s…
What Aquinas Never Said About Women
If the first casualty of war is the unwelcome truth, the first tool of the discontented is…
Sin, Theodicy & Politics
It is a pleasure to recommend to readers Father Edward Oakes’ masterful essay on original sin elsewhere…
Questioning Everything?
Ever since Galileo, the received wisdom has held that an “expert” is somebody who “thinks scientifically,” as…
And Now Introducing …
An Introduction to the New Testament By Raymond E. Brown DoubleDay. 878 pages, $42.50 Those unaware of…
Briefly Noted 150
Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus. By Susannah Heschel University of Chicago Press. 317 pages, $48 cloth,…
Beyond Reductionism
Religious Mystery and Rational Reflection By Louis Dupré. Eerdmans. 147 pages, $20 The nine essays that constitute…
The Politics of the Possible
Raymond Aron: The Recovery of The Political By Brian C. Anderson Rowman & Littlefield. 215 pages, $58…
Just Friends
For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives. By Catherine M. Wallace. Knopf. 177 pages, $22.…
Cahill’s Gift
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and…
Toward a Religious Humanism
Sacred Passion: The Art of William Schickel By Gregory Wolfe University of Notre Dame Press. 176 pages,…
Problems of Ecclesiology
After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity by Miroslav Volf Eerdmans, 314 pages,…
The Road to St. Catherine’s
yoga is bogus to DesCartes father of the modern art of keeping body and soul apart ask…
All Saints’ Day
Waiting behind burned-out jack-o’-lanterns for day to come, the saints clap their stigmata hands. They are the…
All Souls’ Day
We stack the dead names of the faithful high in the incensed air, light prayers beneath them…
November Funeral
From faded grass beneath the bole the last red windfall hunted down, last marigold, last aster blown,…
