Church and World in Christian Antiquity

by Robert Louis Wilken

Robert Markus investigates the shifting spheres of sacred and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1992

The Earnest Methodist

by Richard Brookhiser

Garfield Bromley Oxnam (1891–1963) was a bishop of the Methodist Church, and a cover subject of Time, though it’s hard to imagine the two going together today. Billy Graham can fill the Sheep Meadow of Central Park with listeners, and John Cardinal O’Connor can fill Fifth Avenue in front of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1992

Can Notre Dame Be Saved?

by David W. Lutz

Iam a member of the United Methodist Church and a graduate student of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. One might ask why a United Methodist would go to a Roman Catholic university to study philosophy. The answer is, I am at Notre Dame because I cannot study philosophy at a Methodist . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1992

Ediorial: Moral Credibility After the Evil Empire: The Witness of IRD

by The Editors

We are a month late in noting an anniversary that should not pass unnoted. 1981 witnessed the launching of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), a venture that was to profoundly shake and partially reshape the social postures of mainline/oldline Protestantism. One might argue that IRD . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1992

Protestants and Natural Law

by Carl E. Braaten

It is a longstanding commonplace in Christian thought that Protestantism distinguishes its moral theology from that of Roman Catholicism by its rejection of natural law. The idea of natural law has long formed the spinal column of Catholic social teaching. Modern Protestantism, by contrast, has no . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1992

The Reluctant Skeptic

by Phillip E. Johnson

Chapter and Verse: A Skeptic Revisits Christianityby mike bryanrandom house, 324 pages, $22 Mike Bryan is an atheist, raised a Methodist, who wanted to write a book about “Christians who actually believe the Bible versus all the other kinds.” So he spent time in residence at Criswell College in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1991

A Protestant Shtetl

by Benjamin McArthur

Just east of Chattanooga, four miles north of the Georgia state line and six miles up the road from where the Andrews raiders abandoned The General following their famous Civil War railroad hijacking, lies the village of Collegedale. Nestled in a valley alongside the Appalachian ridge known as White . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1991

A Rabbi’s Christmas

by Jakob J. Petuchowski

In order not to raise false hopes in the hearts of those who still have the expectation that one day all Jews will convert to Christianity, it might be best to begin with a few disclaimers. The writer of this article does not believe in the Trinity. He does not believe that Jesus . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1991

Countercultural Christians

by R. Booth Fowler

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalismby George M. Marsden Eerdmans, 206 pages, $12.95 Evangelicalism and fundamentalism continue to represent a vital and flourishing sector of American religion, one often at war with the American cultural elite and latterly much engaged in politics. For . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1991

The Present and Future Church

by Wolfhart Pannenberg

The Church of the future must take up the ecumenical . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1991