January 2001
The Dangers of Dickerson
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Minding the Evangelical Mind
Those of us who call ourselves “evangelical scholars” are accustomed to suspicion from the church and incredulity…
Arguing Israel and the Holocaust
It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the…
Defining the Humanities Up
Reading a new edition of Allen Tate’s collected essays (Essays of Four Decades, ISI Books, 640 pp.,…
Whose Left?
There’s this friend of mine who’s a liberal. For years now, he’s been trying to persuade me…
Development as Freedom
Development as Freedom is a brilliant book by the world“famous economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, longtime…
Briefly Noted 29
The Camel Knows the Way. By Lorna Kelly. Self“published, available on Amazon.com. 266 pp. $18 .95 .…
The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales
There’s no escaping the Brothers Grimm. Their masterwork, Kinder und Hausmarchen (1812-1822), usually translated as Grimm’s Fairy…
The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education
D. G. Hart teaches at Westminster Theological Seminary, an institution that serves the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, a…
The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism
In the course of the lectures that later became The Idea of a University , John Henry…
In the Name of Humanity: Reflections on the Twentieth Century
French philosopher Alain Finkiel kraut’s subtle essay on humanism and its discontents grapples with a big question:…
Poetry
According to Polybius The sea route to Byzantium Was fortunate in ways not clear When looking at…