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The Judaism of Jesus In “ The Passion ’s Passionate Despisers” (June/July), Kenneth L. Woodward summed up his critique of the Jewish critics of the film by writing that “Jews should realize [it] is not about them.” Mr. Woodward’s conclusion is accurate, but that is . . . . Continue Reading »

Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion By Michael Heller Templeton. 183 pp. $22.95 paper. Michael Heller brings to his reflections on science and religion a depth of knowledge, thought, and experience that is highly unusual. He spent his early childhood in Siberia, where his family had . . . . Continue Reading »

Personalism and Apologetics After reading Avery Cardinal Dulles’ article “The Rebirth of Apologetics” (May), one would do well to consider another approach to apologetics”one that recognizes that people can also pursue “aspirations of the human heart for communion with . . . . Continue Reading »

In Defense of Globalization. By Jagdish Bhagwati. Oxford University Press. 308 pp. $28. There are many books out there on economic globalization, but this is one to own and to keep on the shelf for frequent reference. It is solid, well organized, clearly written, and wickedly witty. As a younger . . . . Continue Reading »

In Defense of Globalization . By Jagdish Bhagwati. Oxford University Press. 308 pp. $28. There are many books out there on economic globalization, but this is one to own and to keep on the shelf for frequent reference. It is solid, well organized, clearly written, and wickedly witty. As a younger . . . . Continue Reading »

War and Statecraft Reconsidered In “War and Statecraft: An Exchange” (March), George Weigel is right to distinguish “rigorously” between bellum in its traditional sense of public war and duellum in its equally traditional sense of private war (piracy, brigandage, terroristic raids, most . . . . Continue Reading »

The Sword of the Lord: Military Chaplains from the First to the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Doris L. Bergen. University of Notre Dame Press. 312 pp. $18 paper. The military chaplaincy in the West is the subject of this compilation of essays by historians and scholar-chaplains. The office took . . . . Continue Reading »

Agony and Art The rhetorical devices employed by Russell Hittinger and Eilzabeth Lev in “Gibson’s Passion ” (March) to justify the orgy of sadomasochism and anti-Semitism in Mel Gibson’s film”and to cover over their own lack of cogent arguments”should not go . . . . Continue Reading »

Of Time and the River I love the way the river rollicks here, and how it sluices headlong down the hill to hurtle through these spruces in a thrill of spray. Up-slope, beneath the glacier’s sheer façade, this melt of snow that fell the year the earth was made emerges as a rill; then, far . . . . Continue Reading »

Hitler and the Vatican: Inside the Secret Archives That Reveal the Complete Story of the Nazis and the Church. By Peter Godman. Free Press. 282 pp. $27. Last year the Vatican opened the previously sealed archives that contain correspondence between the Holy See and Germany from the years 1923-1939. . . . . Continue Reading »