October 2003

October Letters
Who’s in Hell? Avery Cardinal Dulles’ characteristically clear and comprehensive article “The Population of Hell” (May) brings…
The Marriage Amendment
Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman.…
Two Popes
Twenty-five years as pope is no small thing. When John Paul II celebrates his papal jubilee this…
The Supreme Court Rules
Not so very long ago, defenders of judicial activism felt it necessary to justify how an unelected…
Christ and Nothing
As modern men and women—to the degree that we are modern—we believe in nothing. This is not…
War, Peace & Jean Bethke Elshtain
Stanley Hauwerwas and Paul J. Griffiths Jean Bethke Elshtain is rightly admired for her courage, for her…
Waking from the Dead
Terry Wallis recently woke up. For most of us, this would not be news. But for Terry…
Scandal and the Constitution
Let us stipulate from the beginning, as we lawyers say, that the Catholic scandal is fueled by…
Fretful Orthodoxy
There is a pamphlet making its way, via the Internet, through the Modern Orthodox stream of the…
Roots of Jihad
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis Modern Library. 170 pp. $19.95…
Sweet Sistine
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by ross king walker and company, 373 pages, $28 According to Giorgio…
Briefly Noted 56
Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?. By Michael Ruse. Harvard University Press. 371 pp. $29.95.…
Postmodernist Ecumenism
The Church in a Postliberal Age by George A. Lindbeck edited by James J. Buckley Eerdmans, 300…
A Conservative Innovator
Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden Yale University Press. 615 pp. $35 Since Jonathan Edwards’…
Verses of the Soul That Pines to See God
Not in myself do I live but in such great hope, that I die of longing to…