June/July 2013
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Letters
Divine Action Ross McCullough dissects the God-of-the-gaps objection (“God and the Gaps,” April), which for too long…
God, Gods, and Fairies
One of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers of today’s popular atheism is that…
Tragic Worship
The problem with much Christian worship in the contemporary world, Catholic and Protestant alike, is not that…
Confirmation Day
The day I was granted the Sacrament of Confirmation and was admitted with full rights and privileges…
European Faith Made Private
Western Europe is thought to be the only part of the world where Christianity is in decline,…
From Play to Freedom
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant contended that struggle is the motive force of…
Introduction
In December 2012, more than twenty scholars gathered in New York for a seminar to discuss the…
Sociology as Theology
Just when you thought liberal Protestantism was dead, Robert Bellah writes what is arguably the greatest work…
Solidarity
Money matters, but not as much as we’ve come to think. Even if everybody in America enjoyed…
A Reply to My Critics
Perhaps it was inevitable in a symposium organized by First Things that all three commentators fault my…
Impossible Pluralism
Robert Bellah understands religion as an activity that takes us beyond the quotidian. The everyday world is…
Search Me, O God
What is most alarming about popular young adult novelist Cory Doctorow’s vision is the understanding of God…
Briefly Noted
Auctoritas Patrum?: The Reception of the Church Fathers in Puritanism by Ann-Stephane Schäfer Peter Lang, 449 pages,…
Life’s Detail
Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World by Matthew Lundin Harvard, 352 pages, $49.95 Hermann Weinsberg…
Sacred Wood
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays by James Wood Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 339 pages, $27 In…
Dead-End Dialectic
Rudolf Bultmann: A Biography by Konrad Hammann Polebridge, 624 pages, $60 In his recently translated biography of…
One Small Step
i.m. Neil Armstrong “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” —Neil Armstrong,…
The Long Room
Alive in the long, deep room of the soul, I feel, at 41, absurdly old, a burnt-out…
After the Ascension
Ascension Thursday: gone again. My usual panic every year Sets in as the Easter season ends; I’d…
By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them
Hard words, Lord Christ! For what good fruits bear I? For all your care and tending, what…
