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Saint Augustine

John Peter Kenney

Saint Augustine by garry wills penguin books, 152 pages, $6.95 Augustinophobia, the fear and loathing of Augustine, is a long-standing malady. The condition has never been confined only to...

The Secularized Christian Academy

John Peter Kenney

The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from Their Christian Churches by james tunstead burtchaell eerdmans, 888 pages, $29 When I entered Bowdoin in the...

After Scholasticism

John Peter Kenney

Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century by philip gleason oxford university press, 434 pages, $35 We Catholics are united in the faith, but infinitely disunited...

The Suicide State

John Peter Kenney

The Roman Catholic Church called it a sin. The American Medical Association described it as unethical. C. Everett Koop, the former Surgeon General, said it was dangerous to societyโ€™s...