Arts & Letters

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Evangelical Growth and Politics in Latin America

Joseph E. Davis

Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth by david stoll university of california press,…

Victory Near the Plaza

Lawrence Dugan

“Sherman Led by Victory” Is a St. Gaudens statue, A cast-bronze allegory. With Victory as a woman Pulling his horse’s bridle Out…

Mortality: The Measure of Our Days

Gilbert Meilaender

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither; Ripeness is all.  —King Lear For…

Toward a Christian Critique of the Arts

Kenneth A. Myers

Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $14.95 In 1948, a…

Middle East Apocalypse Now?

Peter J. Leithart

Saddam Hussein’s invasion and annexation of Kuwait may have thrown the world economy into confusion, but it…

Liturgy

William Heyen

We kept building our steeples higher until emissions streamed to thousands of miles away, but distant lakes…

A Minimalist Aristotle?

Russell Hittinger

Innocence and Experience by stuart hampshire harvard university press, 195 pages, $20 Stuart Hampshire begins his new…

Academic Integrity Betrayed

Gerard V. Bradley

Abortion does funny things to the mind. Not necessarily the procedure itself: expert opinion on its mental…

Being Modern

Gilbert Meilaender

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by charles taylor harvard university press, 601…

Ecotastrophe Again

Herbert London

The drumbeat for apocalypse can once again be heard in the media. Almost two decades after the…

The Transcendent in the Mundane

Jill P. Baumgaertner

Ordinary Time by a. g. mojtabai doubleday, 223 pages, $17.95 A.G. Mojtabai’s nonfiction work, Blessed Assurance, won…

Religion and Science

Robert L. Spaeth

The Galileo Affair:A Documentary History edited and translated with an introduction and notes by maurice a. finocchiaro…

Fixing America

Quentin L. Quade

Straight Shooting: What’s Wrong with America and How to Fix It by john silber harper and row,…

Asking the Wrong Question

Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.

Prophetic Visions and Economic Realities: Protestants, Jews, & Catholics Confront the Bishops’ Letter on the Economy edited…

Should Politics Be Sacralized?

John W. Cooper

Twin Powers: Politics and the Sacred by thomas molnar eerdmans, 147 pages, $9.95 One of the most…