June/July 2003
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June/July Letters
Getting the Story Right Stephen M. Barr’s “Retelling the Story of Science” (March) provides an excellent framework…
Christian Unity: Beginning Again, Again
The Public Square Call it a pause or a hiatus or a bump in the road or…
Hume, Austen, and First Impressions
Saint David,” his friends in Scotland and England called David Hume. And in France, where he spent…
Leon Kass and the Genesis of Wisdom
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis by Leon Kass. Free Press. 576 pp. $35. Leon Kass’ meditation…
God in a Godless Time
If someone were to ask: “How do things stand with the ‘God Question?’” many of us would…
The Women of Roe v. Wade
To understand fully the incalculable effects of Roe v. Wade it is necessary (though of course not…
Secularism at Bay
Among the many notable decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in the area of religion was the…
What God Knows
There is a medium-sized theological brouhaha stirring within the evangelical academy these days, and, unlike some of…
Justice Stevens’ Religion Problem
On many occasions the Supreme Court has declared that the religion clause of the First Amendment prohibits…
Modernism, Science, and Spirituality
Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual by lynn gamwell princeton university press, 344 pages, $49.95…
Building from the Wreckage
In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity by R.R. Reno…
Briefly Noted 54
An Introduction to the Christian Orthodox Churches. By John Binns. Cambridge University Press. 270 pp. $22 .…
A Relevant Traditionalist
Essential Essays on Judaism by Eliezer Berkovits editied by David Hazony Shalem. 393 pp. $22.95 paper. During…
Servants of One Sovereign Master
God, Locke, and Equality by Jeremy Waldron Cambridge University Press. 263 pp. $22 paper The account of…
Second-Hand Civ.
Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization by Rémi Brague Translated by Samuel Lester St. Augustine’s. 205…
Revolutionary Perspectives
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders by bernard bailyn knopf,…
One Darkest Night
One darkest night I went, aflame with love’s devouring eager burning— O fortunate event!— no witnesses discerning,…
Church Clothes
The chameleon charms with wizardry to escape his humble lizardry, blending in with vain show blizzardry, Chameleon…
Atque Vale
From Georgia, through South Carolina, North Carolina, around Greenville and Charlotte, across the Tugaloo River, and the…
The Concert
It offers many dividends: The opportunity to meet And chat with old and new-found friends; The amiable…
Death Song
From orchards, and gardens, and house I move on, From porcelain and goblets engraved by the potter,…
