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A Christian University: Defining the Difference

From the May 1999 Print Edition

The title of George Marsden’s most recent book on Christian higher education referred to the idea of Christian scholarship as “outrageous.” For many people, the idea of a Christian university is even more so. Judging by the recent resurgence of interest in and care for church“related . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1999

King Lear Beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family

From the October 1993 Print Edition

The practice of combining love and justice in the governance of relationships between parents and children is crucial to the moral formation of the young. This balancing act also requires the most strenuous and careful exercise by those who would be good parents of the very moral virtues that they . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1993

Alasdair MacIntyre’s University

From the May 1991 Print Edition

Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry by Alasdair MacIntyre University of Notre Dame Press, 241 pages, $24.95 Over the course of the last five years or so the quality of philosophical inquiry into both ethical and religious matters has increased significantly. Martha Nussbaum’s The Fragility . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1991

Religion and the Life of Learning

From the August/September 1990 Print Edition

What can we know? How should we live? In what or whom should we hope? A historian might fruitfully divide Western intellectual life into periods or cultures according to which one of these three questions was the central and controlling one for them. But this imaginary (and ambitious!) historian . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1990
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