American Politics
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Germanizing Protestantism
Founding the Fathers: ? Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America by Elizabeth Clark University…
Taxing Boredom
The Pale King by David foster Wallace Little, Brown, 548 pages, $27.99 n It’s not often that…
Greenblatt’s Curious Omission
In the Middle Ages,” said a candidate for a position in medieval literature at my college, “beauty…
The Collins Bank Bible
The Holy Bible: New International Version Zondervan 1152 pages, $27.99 With more than 400 million copies in…
Whither Marriage?
Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral…
Briefly Noted
Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East“West Unity by Adam A.…
The Song that Ena Zizi Sang
As usual one story will have to serve for one million stories. That is the way of…
Oriental Aspects of Occidental Faith
In my fifteen years in Aberdeen, the Old Aberdeen mosque went from a tiny to a flourishing…
Bell’s Present Heaven
Explicit confession of the Lordship of Jesus is not necessary for salvation, at least under certain circumstances”very…
On a Certain Viennese Doctor
Inventing a refined disease afflicting all the human race, he took away ideas of ease, exposed us,…
On Hesperus at Confession
When Hesperus was making his confession of sins, according to the sacred rite, the careful priest explored…
At the Right Hand
Ascension Theology by Douglas Farrow T&T Clark, 177 pages, $27.95 n Simply put,” writes Douglas Farrow, “our…
Wagner’s Incestuous Narcissism
The curtain rises in silence to reveal a stage composed of parallel white planks. With the first…
A Splendid Wickedness
The literature of Spain’s “Golden Age” produced two figures—Don Quixote de La Mancha and Don Juan Tenorio—who…
The Cosmopolitan Conservative
Has American liberalism lost its capacity to govern? I’m afraid so. Liberals can still win elections and…
