October 2000
How Intelligent Is Intelligent Design?
How Intelligent Is Intelligent Design? Stephen C. Meyer’s article “DNA and Other Designs” (April) captures the heart…
The Liberated Lost
The Public Square The idea that religion is the heart of culture and culture is the form…
The Supreme Court 2000: A Symposium
After several sleepy and unimportant terms, the Supreme Court this year reminded us of its importance”excessive importance,…
The Supreme Court 2000: A Symposium
“God save the United States and this Honorable Court!” From the beginning, every session of the Supreme…
Catholic Educations
I went to Brooklyn Prep”“The Jesuit High School in Brooklyn,” as the blue and white prospectus put…
How Great Awakenings Happen
Historians have identified three Great Awakenings”notable surges of religious vitality”in American history. The first occurred in the…
The Supreme Court 2000: A Symposium
In 1993, Colorado enacted a law prohibiting any person within one hundred feet of a “health care…
The Supreme Court 2000: A Symposium
At the end of this past term, the Supreme Court produced mixed results, but the results were…
The Supreme Court 2000: A Symposium
In considering the blind spots of other generations or cultures from a safe distance, it becomes clear…
The Supreme Court 2000: A Symposium
The Supreme Court’s recently completed term was extraordinary in breadth. Fundamental issues of constitutional structure and individual…
Grim Tales
For the past two years, I have been the head “Library Mommy” at my daughter’s private nursery…
Sacred Fanfares
The international broadcast of the opening of Scotland’s new parliament in July 1999 gave the world more…
A Premature Postmodern
Few would dispute, although some regret, the fact that the single most influential voice in twentieth“century Protestant…
Whistling Dixie
Judging from the public face it presented at its convention in Philadelphia in early August, the Republican…
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Religion and the Rise of Historicism:W. M. L. de Wette, Jacob Burckhardt, and the Theological Origins of…
An American Bible
An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880 by paul gutjahr…
Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants
Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants by d. h. williams eerdmans, 253…
Hitler, the War, and the Pope
Hitler, the War, and the Pope by ronald j. rychlak genesis press, 296 pages, $9.35 Amid the…
A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation
A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation by peter singer yale university press, 70 pages, $22 Back…
Trinity and Truth
Trinity and Truth by bruce d. marshall cambridge university press, 304 pages, $55.44 There is a danger…