October 2011
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Briefly Noted
Orthodoxy and the Roman Papacy: Ut Unum Sint and the Prospects of East“West Unity by Adam A.…
Letters
doubting thomas on lying Janet E. Smith is to be commended for the deference she shows St.…
Bell’s Present Heaven
Explicit confession of the Lordship of Jesus is not necessary for salvation, at least under certain circumstances”very…
Oriental Aspects of Occidental Faith
In my fifteen years in Aberdeen, the Old Aberdeen mosque went from a tiny to a flourishing…
Greenblatt’s Curious Omission
In the Middle Ages,” said a candidate for a position in medieval literature at my college, “beauty…
The Heavy Eyelids of Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud set himself apart. For several decades, until his death this past July, the English painter…
Whither Marriage?
Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral…
Reading the Gospels with Benedict XVI
A few days after Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, a distinguished Lutheran theologian happened to meet…
A Free Speech Year at the Court
The Supreme Court completed its 2010 term at the end of June with no blockbusters, few surprises,…
Is Their God Ours?
Allah: A Christian Response by Miroslav Volf HarperOne, 336 pages, $25.99 n The thesis Miroslav Volf defends…
Taxing Boredom
The Pale King by David foster Wallace Little, Brown, 548 pages, $27.99 n It’s not often that…
And There’s Another Country
What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song edited by Amy A.…
Waking Up to Death
In the Valley of the Shadow: On the Foundations of Religious Belief by James l. Kugel Free…
The Collins Bank Bible
The Holy Bible: New International Version Zondervan 1152 pages, $27.99 With more than 400 million copies in…
The Song that Ena Zizi Sang
As usual one story will have to serve for one million stories. That is the way of…
La Vita Nuova, Sonnet 40
Oh, pilgrims walking by oblivious, your minds, it seems, on something not at hand, can you have…
On Hesperus at Confession
When Hesperus was making his confession of sins, according to the sacred rite, the careful priest explored…
On a Certain Viennese Doctor
Inventing a refined disease afflicting all the human race, he took away ideas of ease, exposed us,…
