Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Fighting the Noonday Devil
For most of the modern era, Christian apologists have emphasized the role of pride as the primary…
The Sociality of Society
The Common Good and Christian Ethics by David Hollenbach Cambridge University Press. 269 pp. $23 paper It…
The Faith of the Founding
My colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Walter Berns, has written that the philosophy of John Locke…
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monastic missions: wall paintings in the monastery of st. antony at the red seaedited by elizabeth s.…
The Disconsolate Philosopher
the making of a philosopher by colin mcginn harpercollins, 241 pp., $25.95 Philosophy is made for man, not…
Ivan Karamazov’s Mistake
It is has become commonplace to regard Ivan Karamazov’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” as a prescient…
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution
As Mustapha Mond put it in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, whether human nature is fixed or…
Poetry
You who seek serenity in the wide tempestuous sea of the world, cease and abandon all hope…
Heaven Below: Early Pentecostalism and American Culture
Pentecostals are often skeptical regarding books written about them. And there is good reason for such skepticism.…
Poetry
Copyright (c) 2002 First Things 122 (April 2002): 7, 9, 20. The Slender Girl The morning slipping…
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750
Enlightenment“bashing, it would seem, is “in.” If anything could unite the discordant voices inside the cacophony of…
The Jesuit Enigma
Passionate Uncertainty:Inside the American Jesuitsby peter mcdonough and eugene c. bianchiuniversity of california press, 380 pages, $29.95…
Purgatory for Everyone
A few years ago, the journalist Philip Nobile wrote an article near the first anniversary of the…
Poetry
When all roads led to Rome, unRoman ways made inroads into Rome so Rome’s ways changed. Now…
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Hitler and the Holocaust. By Robert S. Wistrich. Modern Library. 295 pp. $19.95. Robert Wistrich’s Hitler and…
