Max L. Stackhouse

Few would dispute, although some regret, the fact that the single most influential voice in twentieth“century Protestant thought as it bears on religion in the public square is Ernst Troeltsch (1865“1923). Only Reinhold Niebuhr and Dietrich Bonhoeffer can compare in generating key concepts and . . . . Continue Reading »

The most creative dimensions of Western spirituality are rooted in a deep interaction between the biblically informed understanding of God, creation, and time and a humanist view of the true, the good, and the beautiful. Although tensions were sometimes acute, the affinities are many, and the . . . . Continue Reading »

Every civilization has had its own ways of getting materials out of the bio-physical environment in order to feed, clothe, and house people, and to move people and things from where they are to where we want them to go. People with technical abilities know how to do things, how to make instruments . . . . Continue Reading »

Socialism: Past and Future by michael harringtonarcade publishing, 320 pages, $19.95  If one is going to be a socialist, Michael Harrington’s variety is perhaps the best kind to be. Before his premature death from cancer this past year, Harrington worked with Dorothy Day to help the poor in . . . . Continue Reading »