October 1998
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)
Setback In Rome
The Public Square Setback in Rome In June the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) formally approved a “Joint…
In Defense of Disbelief
A healthy dose of Christian disbelief or “holy skepticism” would serve as a much-needed antidote to the…
Science and Design
When the physics of Galileo and Newton displaced the physics of Aristotle, scientists tried to explain the…
Neocons vs. Theocons, Again
In November 1996, a First Things symposium on American democracy and the court raised a furor among…
C. S. Lewis on Mere Science
In The Abolition of Man C. S. Lewis noted that nothing he could say would keep some…
The Lutheran Prospect
When I was a child, Lutherans enthusiastically celebrated October 31 as Reformation Day. Today most of them…
Subversive Virginity
Okay, I’ll admit it: I am twenty-two years old and still a virgin. Not for lack of…
Popes for All Seasons
God’s Representatives: The Eight Twentieth-century Popes by james bentleyconstable. 200 pages, £16.95 . Saints and Sinners: A History…
A Vanishing World
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East By William Dalrymple Henry…
Catholic and Evangelical?
Systematic Theology: Volume 3 By Wolfhart Pannenberg, Translated by Geoffrey Bromiley Eerdmans. 713 pp. $49 Authors often…
Shall We Clone?
Human Cloning: Religious Responses Edited By Ronald Cole-Turner. Westminister/ John Knox. 151 pp. $15 The nature of…
Have You Found Jesus?
The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus By Charlotte Allen Free Press. 359 pages, $26…
The Rebbe’s Son
Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Witness By Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner Yale University Press. 416…
Briefly Noted 149
Why Marriage Matters: Reasons to Believe in Marriage in PostModern Society. By Glenn T. Stantion Piñon. 222…
The Secularized Christian Academy
The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches By James…
The Best of Intentions
Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration By Tamar Jacoby. Free Press 614 pp. $30 Whatever…
The Necessity of Community
All the Essential Half”Truths About Higher Education By George Dennis O’Brien University of Chicago Press. 243 pp.…
The Fall
I. September New England comes to flower dying. Leaves like new-blown blossoms trail in fluttered rage from…
Monthly Communion
At church, the man touches his lover’s hand: two crisscrossed in the cross, signing symbols in unison.…
Of State
Listen, God, I need You, hear me. Cheer me In this darkness. Give me back (My soul…
