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The Uses of Death

J. Budziszewski

From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Bodyby randall b. smithemmaus road, 296 pages, $27.95 A Presbyterian colleague once explained to me that...

Evangelizing Christians

J. Budziszewski

If baptism isn’t just a symbol of initiation but is an initiation, then Zach was already a Christian. God’s seal had been impressed indelibly on his soul. The inky...

This Time Will Not Be the Same

J. Budziszewski

G od willing, the new evangelization will happen, but let usnot imagine that this time will be like the first time. The old evangelizationproclaimed the Good News among pagan,...

Natural Law Revealed

J. Budziszewski

I The relations among nature, reason, and revelation are mysterious for both Protestants and Catholics. Consider John Paul II’s remark that “the primary and definitive source for studying the...

Truth–or Consequences

J. Budziszewski

Truth–or Consequences Lying; An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity by Paul J. Griffiths Brazos 254 pp. $18.99 reviewed by J. Budziszewski Everyone has lied. Most people are uneasy about lying, but most...

The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World

J. Budziszewski

The informing vision of this important and subtly argued book is that man is not left to himself; there is no place on the planet, period of history, domain...

Feeling Moral

J. Budziszewski

Luke! Trust your feelings!” As we know, Luke does what he is told, and the galaxy is saved. How fortunate that he did not trust his mind and skill,...

Pilgrim Meets Compassionate

J. Budziszewski

(with apologies to John Bunyan) Idreamed that when Amoralist saw that he could neither make Pilgrim turn back by the blows of his hammer, nor pierce him with his...

Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

J. Budziszewski

Jonathan Glover is stirred and troubled by the atrocities of the twentieth century, and wants to know why ordinary people can commit such terrible deeds and how to prevent...

Overcoming the Scandal of the Christian Mind

J. Budziszewski

How Now Shall We Live?by charles colson and nancy pearceytyndale, 580 pages, $22.99 In 1993, when Washington Post writer Michael Weisskopf issued his notorious declaration that evangelicals are “largely...