Arts & Letters
A selection of recent articles on this topic
2009 December Letters
Cranky and Getting CrankierIn his June/July Public Square column, Joseph Bottum claims that the three infallible signs…
Majority
Now you’d be three, I said to myself, seeing a child born the same summer as you.…
Believer
My friend insists he wants me to be saved. He argues that my soul will come to…
In Between the Angels and the Apes
Neither Beast nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person BY Gilbert Meilaender Encounter, 180 pages, $21.95…
The Quest for the Confessional Jesus
The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus by Dale C. Allison Jr. Eerdmans, 126 pages, $16 Christians…
Economic Justice and the Spirit of Innovation
When the word morality comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually…
Death in Naples
The taxi driver shouted, “Tell us! Tell us!” when his other passenger, a local journalist, announced that…
What Marriage Is—And What It Isn’t
Everyone agrees that marriage, whatever else it is or does, is a relationship in which persons are…
The Beginning of Wisdom
And from There You Shall Seek by Joseph Soloveitchik Ktav, 230 pages, $29.50 Near the end of…
The Face of Civilization
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies by David Bentley Hart Yale, 249 pages, $28…
Briefly Noted — 08/09
Helen Barrett Montgomery: The Global Mission of Domestic Feminism by kendal p. mobley baylor, 420 pages, $39.95…
The Social Gospel of Charles Dickens
“I hold my imaginative capacity,” Charles Dickens once wrote, “on the stern condition that it must master…
Cold War Religion
Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945“1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden Cambridge University Press, 368…
Sanctifying Islam
The Theology of Tariq Ramadan: A Catholic Perspective by Gregory Baum University of Notre Dame Press, 178…
A Tale of Two Cities
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces by Robert Clark Doubleday, 354 pages, $26…
