October 2005

October Letters
An Actual Buddhist Peter J. Leithart does not know what he is talking about in his article…
The Shame of Darfur
In April 2005, a striking celebration occurred in Washington to mark the signing of a peace accord…
The Lively God of Robert Jenson
A year ago, I was interviewed by a small theological journal concerning a book of mine that…
God & Bertie Wooster
Suppose that words were all you had. Suppose the great edifice of Western civilization had collapsed around…
The Supreme Court Rules: 2005
This year’s Supreme Court term was, all things considered, a fairly mild affair”if by mild is meant…
The New Europes
Year after year since the evil empire’s fall, the promise of Poland increases. If history is capable…
The Design of Evolution
Catholic theology has never really had a quarrel with the idea that the present species of plants…
American Apocalypse
An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire By Michael Northcott I.B. Tauris. 220 pp.…
Briefly Noted 13
Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature. By Nicholas Boyle. University of Notre Dame Press.…
An Indifferent Reconciliation
Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism by Mark A. Noll Baker Academic.…
Ordinary Idols
Death of an Ordinary Man: A Novel by Glen Duncan Grove. 320 pp. $13 paper. “As soon…
Development or Reversal?
A Church That Can and Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by john t. noonan,…
Looking Down
There is a mute abandon in the prim And music in the silence of relief. There is…