Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Lutheran Difference
To the extent that Lutherans are noticed at all by non-Lutherans in America, impressions can be wildly…
Ediorial: Moral Credibility After the Evil Empire: The Witness of IRD
We are a month late in noting an anniversary that should not pass unnoted. 1981 witnessed the…
Writing Christian History
The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity edited by John McManners Oxford University Press, 724 pages, $45 This…
Postmodern Christian Traditionalism?
Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason by john milbank basil blackwell, 443 pages, $64.95 John Milbank…
A Communitarian Lament
The Good Society by robert n. bellah, richard madsen, william m. sullivan, ann swidler, and stephen m.…
Salman Rushdie Gets Religion
The protagonist of No Longer At Ease by the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe is a young man…
Can Notre Dame Be Saved?
I am a member of the United Methodist Church and a graduate student of philosophy at the…
Protestants and Natural Law
It is hard to make generalizations about Protestant theology, given the inherently splintered nature of Protestantism and…
A Rabbi’s Christmas
In order not to raise false hopes in the hearts of those who still have the expectation…
A Protestant Shtetl
Just east of Chattanooga, four miles north of the Georgia state line and six miles up the…
The Reluctant Skeptic
Chapter and Verse: A Skeptic Revisits Christianity by mike bryan random house, 324 pages, $22 Mike Bryan…
When Jews Are Christians
I By now it is obvious that in the past twenty-five years or so there has been…
The Present and Future Church
At the dawning of this century, Christians in Europe and North America harbored great expectations. Many leaders…
Countercultural Christians
Understanding Fundmentalism and Evangelicalism by george m. marsden eerdmans, 206 pages, $12.95 Evangelicalism and fundamentalism continue to…
Looking at Islam After Kipling and Hesse
Books on Islam, we are told, are enjoying brisk sales. For reasons related to the imperialist past…
