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Opinion

The Dangers of Dickerson

Various

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Minding the Evangelical Mind

Mark A. Noll

Those of us who call ourselves “evangelical scholars” are accustomed to suspicion from the church and incredulity…

Arguing Israel and the Holocaust

David Novak

It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the…

Defining the Humanities Up

Wilfred M. McClay

Reading a new edition of Allen Tate’s collected essays (Essays of Four Decades, ISI Books, 640 pp.,…

Whose Left?

James Nuechterlein

There’s this friend of mine who’s a liberal. For years now, he’s been trying to persuade me…

Reviews

Development as Freedom

Ronald J. Sider

Development as Freedom is a brilliant book by the world“famous economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, longtime…

Briefly Noted 29

Various

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

Philip Zaleski

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

Philip Gleason

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

Edward T. Oakes

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

Brian C. Anderson

French philosopher Alain Finkiel­ kraut’s subtle essay on humanism and its discontents grapples with a big question:…

Poetry

Poetry

Various

According to Polybius The sea route to Byzantium Was fortunate in ways not clear When looking at…