Arts & Letters
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Popes for All Seasons
God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…
C. S. Lewis on Mere Science
In The Abolition of Man C. S. Lewis noted that nothing he could say would keep some…
The Everyday C.S. Lewis
“One is sometimes (not often) glad not to be a great theologian. One might so easily confuse…
Meaningful Work
A lthough it is sometimes forgotten that a worthy human life can be lived by those who…
Melville in Manhattan
It should have been easy for Herman Melville to hate Manhattan—the “Babylonish brick-kilns of New York,” as…
Derrida, Death, and Forgiveness
Barth, Derrida, and the Language of Theologyby graham ward cambridge university press, 258 pages, $54.95 The Gift…
Abortion, Set to Music
Sacred Music of the 20th Century LAL-2001, Life Art, Ltd. 129 Frandview Terrace, Box 300, Lakeside, MT…
Are the Gospels Mythical?
From the earliest days of Christianity, the Gospels’ resemblance to certain myths has been used as an…
A Dutch Master and the Good Life
What follows is prompted not by a cigar, but rather a painting by the Dutch (strictly speaking,…
Christianity and the West
The importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is…
Poisoned Eros
Love and Friendship by allan bloom simon & schuster, 590 pages, $25 “Christianity gave Eros poison to…
Life’s Value
The Children of Men by p. d. james knopf, 241 pages, $22 For some years now the…
Coming Out Ahead: The Homosexual Moment in the Academy
The journal Victorian Studies recently invited submissions for a special issue, entitled “Victorian Sexualities.” “Topics,” stated the…
Athens and Jerusalem, Again
President Clinton’s push to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military has been called many things:…
To Read and to Live
In 1956, W.H. Auden returned to an Oxford University from which he had graduated almost thirty years…
