Volume 46
SUBSCRIBE TO

America’s Most Influential Journal of Religion and Public Life

1-year subscription including unlimited web access to the current issue and the online issue archives. (Canada & International prices may vary)

SUBSCRIBE
Letters

What Jesus Said

Various

What Jesus Said  Richard B. Hays’ critical analysis of The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic…

Essays

Truth and Tolerance

Richard John Neuhaus

“Tolerance is not a religious virtue,” a feisty rabbi is fond of declaring in public, gleefully scandalizing…

Fidel and the Faithful

Thomas C. Oden

The tang of the fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice and the bouquet of moist avocados still linger in my…

The Sinner and the Fool

Cornelius Plantinga Jr.

When we read of a murder in the newspapers or hear of one on television, we often…

Judge Not?

Jean Bethke Elshtain

We are a society awash in exculpatory strategies. We’ve devised lots of fascinating ways to let ourselves…

Jungians and Gnostics

Jeffrey Burke Satinover

Heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in…

The Modern Jewish Condition

Alan L. Mittleman

Autonomy means to live under one’s own law: to discover the norms of a lawful life, a…

Opinion

Life at the Intellectual Barricades

James Nuechterlein

“But why do you have to be so polemical?” It’s a not unfamiliar complaint (see, for example,…

Reviews

The Scandal of the Gospels

Michael Dodaro

The Scandal of the Gospels: Jesus, Story, and Offense by david mccracken oxford university press, 216 pages,…

The Formation of Hell

Jerry L. Walls

The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds by alan e.…

The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan

Molly Finn

The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan: A Novel in Seventeen Stories by lionel abrahams academy chicago publishers, 256…

The Scar of Race

Don Wycliff

The Scar of Race by paul m. sniderman and thomas piazza belknap press, 228 pages, $19.20 When the…