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Cooking the Books in Germany
A story in the New York Times explains that, in Germany, the government fixes the prices at…
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Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life by Paul F. M. Zahl Eerdmans, 267 pages, $18…
The Life of the World
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life by Jon D.…
The Mad Scientists’ Club
The Mad Scientists’ Club Purple House, 217 pages, $17.95 The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club…
Evangelicals and Others
The resurgence of evangelicalism in American religious life can be gauged by various measures, one of which…
The Ugly American Goes to Sudan
Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo Knopf, 688 pages, $26.95 Philip Caputo’s Acts of Faith is a…
Development or Reversal?
A Church That Can and Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by john t. noonan,…
Guinness Backstage
Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography by Piers Paul Read Simon & Schuster, 624 pp. $30. Apropos biography,…
Fleeting Light
Voltaire in Exile by Ian Davidson Grove, 326 pp. $24 If a person of faith troubles to…
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Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians. By F. E. Peters. Princeton University Press. 285 pp. $28.…
A Triple Agent in South Dakota
The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia By Richard Pipes Yale University Press. 153 pp.…
Revolutionary Perspectives
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by bernard bailyn knopf,…
The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care
The ongoing public debate over the legalization of assisted suicide draws participants whose primary concern is not…
Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy and Popes and Politics: Reform, Resentment, and the Holocaust
The ongoing debate about Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) and his actions (or lack of actions) in…
Case for the Prosecution
The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism By David L.…
