Arts & Letters
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Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City
History dominates the Israeli“Palestinian conflict. Selective memories on both sides produce partial narratives that deny or obscure…
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The 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law. English translation and scholarly apparatus by Edward N. Peters. Ignatius.…
The Mess That Is Marriage
I had occasion recently to ponder the service folder from a wedding. In many respects this wedding…
Frontiers of Legal Theory
Reviewed by Robert T. Miller Judge Richard A. Posner is for many the most brilliant jurist of…
Universalism Redux
In ” Will All Be Saved? ” (Public Square, August/September) Richard John Neuhaus uses an interesting argument…
Stanley Fish’s Milton
How Milton Worksby stanley fishharvard university press, 616 pages, $35. Stanley Fish zooms across the firmament of…
Handbook of Religion and Health
The tradition of the scientific handbook as a concise, accessible source of validated information emerged in the…
Violence and the Defense of Life
Alas, First Things seems intent on remaining merely a scholarly magazine hovering above the fray on the…
The Trinity in German Thought
In writing both of his Catechisms of 1529, Martin Luther attempted to highlight the trinitarian structure of…
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The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy. Edited by Elliott Abrams. Rowman & Littlefield.…
Auden and the Limits of Poetry
By the mid-1930s, W. H. Auden was the most famous and most widely imitated young poet in…
Bible Babel
The Public Square “If I had the authority,” declared the leader of an evangelical parachurch empire, “I’d…
Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
The story of Occupied Rome has never dovetailed well with the portrait of Pius XII as indifferent…
Calvin: A Biography
Bernard Cottret’s Calvin: A Biography is the fifth in a spate of English“language biographies of the Geneva…
By Nature Equal
By Nature Equal is a bold and original book. Both authors are law professors”Coons at Boalt Hall…
