Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America by mark r. schwehn oxford university press, 143 pages, $19.95 I am a teacher of undergraduates at a major research university. I am also the mother of two recent college graduates. From both inside and out, I am keenly aware of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Dear Nephew, my plutonic sprout, I am pleased as punch (spiked with Demon Rum, of course) at your recent success in instilling in young Missy Smith the conviction that she is “fat” and must starve herself into conformity with the popular image of an attractive young woman as looking exactly like . . . . Continue Reading »
The Church and Abortion: In Search of New Ground for Response edited by paul t. stallsworth Abingdon, 152 pages, $10.95 paper Although it is prepared by and for Methodists, you don’t have to be a Methodist to welcome this important contribution. The contributors are Ruth S. Brown, Michael J. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers In Our Religious Economy by roger finke and rodney stark rutgers university press, 325 pages, $22.95 In mainline theological schools, divinity students are told a familiar tale about the church in modernity that goes something like this: The . . . . Continue Reading »
One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards by gerald r. mcdermott pennsylvania state university press, 203 pages, $29.95 Gerald McDermott, who teaches religion at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, has written a persuasive revisionist account of Jonathan Edwards . . . . Continue Reading »
The only thing deader than dead politics must surely be dead political science. It is thus remarkable to find that after several decades, these essays by Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903–1987) remain surprisingly lively. This is ironic. For Jouvenel, writing during the so-called behavioralist . . . . Continue Reading »
In the beginning there was no beginning; no no; no was; no in; no there— nothing that was, was, and all that wasn’t, inconceivable, and there was no one and nothing, and anything, to care: until such time—in due course—creation had begun So Mozart ages . . . . Continue Reading »
I invoke the air in rage, am like a cancer in a cage— only myself to burn, to burn; mere glass and sun on an empty stage. Pick and spade, curse and yearn— agatefulls are struck and turned, one by one and year by year, until the hollow has been earned. Now the . . . . Continue Reading »
Five years ago, well before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Geographic Society had anticipated the reunification of Germany, and thus when the happy day came, it was ready for the onslaught of map revision that was shortly to follow. Prepared as the Society was then, however, it must now, . . . . Continue Reading »
In Xenophon’s Oeconomicus, Socrates and Critobulus are discussing household management, in which the wife plays a major role. The exchange goes this way: “Anyhow, Critobulus, you should tell us the truth, for we are all friends here. Is there anyone to whom you commit more affairs of . . . . Continue Reading »
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