Is There a Saving Truth?

by Gerhard Ludwig Müller

Does our eternal salvation depend on the concrete acceptance of the truths of faith?  Continue Reading »

13 Mar 2018

The Necessity of Judgment

by Theodore Dalrymple

Montaigne: A Lifeby philippe desantranslated by steven rendall and lisa nealprinceton, 832 pages, $39.95 When faced with a biography that could as well stop a door as fill a shelf, one’s first question is always, “Does the subject merit this exhaustive treatment?” There are a few historical . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2017

The Styles of Modern Politics

by Peter Berkowitz

The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism By Michael Oakeshott, Edited by Timothy Fuller. Yale University Press, 139 pages, $25. In his Editor’s Introduction, Timothy Fuller informs the reader that those who were best acquainted with Michael Oakeshott and his thought cannot explain why . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1997

Reason Public and Private: The Pannenberg Project

by Richard John Neuhaus

There are numerous obstacles to making the connections between religion and public life. For some moderns, a quasi-religious commitment to secularism produces an overt hostility to religion in all its manifestations. For many others, religion is self-evidently a purely private phenomenon. In that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 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

Boys and Girls: The Long Way Back to the Obvious

by Richard John Neuhaus

Surveys provide additional evidence that Americans are returning to “traditional values.” Traditional values is usually a synonym for common sense or moral platitudes. Such sense is common and such morality is platitudinous because they are powerfully confirmed and reconfirmed by human . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1991