Catholicism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Finding God in China
The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge’s Oriental Pilgrimage by Norman Girardot University of California Press. 861…
The Population of Hell
Sometimes the complaint is heard that no one preaches about hell any longer. The subject of hell,…
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Knowing the Love of Christ: An Introduction to the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. By Michael Dauphinais…
Flannery O’Connor: A Life
Flannery O’Connor: A Life by jean w. cash university of tennessee press, 392 pages, $30 Writing of…
The Persistence of the Catholic Moment
In 1987, while I was still a Lutheran, I published a book titled The Catholic Moment: The…
Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Economics, as a social science, occupies a peculiar space within academic and national life. Economists deal with…
What Is Ancient Philosophy?
According to Pierre Hadot, a prominent historian of ancient thought and professor emeritus at the CollËge de…
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Real Ethics: Rethinking the Foundations of Morality By John Rist. Cambridge University Press. 295 pp. $23 paper.…
Newman on the Personal
There immediately follows a piece of vintage Newmanian satire. He imagines the division of mind that is…
Poetry
Like the weary sailor, the refugee from wreck and storm, who escapes half-dead, and then, in terror,…
Purgatory for Everyone
A few years ago, the journalist Philip Nobile wrote an article near the first anniversary of the…
Feathers of Scandal
The story is told of St. Philip Neri (1515–1595) that he gave a most unusual penance to…
Redemption
The angels offered reprieve, escape for Lot’s entire household including almost-sons who having witnessed a divine defense…
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The Koran: A Very Short Introduction By Michael Cook Oxford University Press. 162 pp. $8.95 The Qur’an…
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology
Reviewed by Robert P. Kraynak Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, is not yet…
