Is Liberalism the Problem?
Ross McCullough reviews Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed A specter is haunting conservatism — the specter, indeed, of Marx. Those conservatives too young
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Catholicism as Contradiction
Katherine Dugan reviews The Anthropology of Catholicism: A Reader Pope Francis’ recent trip to South America was one of the most embroiled of
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The Pope and The Pill
Karen Ross reviews Aline Kalbian’s Sex, Violence, and Justice In 1968 the Catholic Church addressed the issue of artificial contraception in its encyclical
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Race, Difference, and Religion: Is There a Universal Humanity?
Ruth Jackson reviews Theodore Vial’s Modern Religion, Modern Race “The cry of equality pulls everyone down” — Iris Murdoch In an episode from
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Magic and Science in Medieval Ashkenaz
Dana Fishkin reviews David Shyovitz’s A Remembrance of His Wonders The study of medieval Jewish history often yields examples of beliefs, practices, conventions or
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Buddhist Spaces: Beyond Secularity
Eric Huntington Reviews Thomas McDaniel’s Architects of Buddhist Leisure Justin Thomas McDaniel’s new book, Architects of Buddhist Leisure, seeks to demolish conceptual barriers
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Naked Luther: The Politics of Culture in Three Early Images of Luther
Brian Cummings on the iconography of the reformer Images of Martin Luther abound in his anniversary year, and they tend to conform to
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Descending the Mountain: Questions after Sinai
Paul Mendes-Flohr reviews Revelation and Authority by Benjamin Sommer It is said that the Archbishop of Canterbury once approached the Chief Rabbi of
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Can We Separate Scripture and Tradition?
John C. Cavadini responds to Benjamin Sommer’s Revelation and Authority In his thoughtful, creative, and learned book, Revelation and Authority, Benjamin Sommers reflects
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After Revelation and Authority: Reflections from the Author
My reading of the Torah’s account of what happened at Mount Sinai in Exodus 19-20 and 24 forms the generative core of the
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