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Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 94 (June/July 1999): 2-7. Fighting About the Fathers If asked to list current Roman Catholic patristic scholars with whom I have the deepest affinities and the highest respect, surely Robin Darling Young of Catholic University of America would be on that list and . . . . Continue Reading »

Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 94 (June/July 1999): 9,16, 30,35, 39. St. Paul to the Berliners (Romans 11:17) A photograph of a German slum in Toland’s life of Hitler Circa 1932: flags from a dozen windows, Swastikas slightly outnumbering Hammer and Sickle. Behind those tenement doors Are all . . . . Continue Reading »

Living in the Image of God: Jewish Teachings to Perfect the World . By Irving Greenberg with Shalom Freedman. Jason Aronson. 366 pp. $35 Rabbi Irving Greenberg has become one of the most influential Jewish thinkers in America. Although an Orthodox rabbi for his entire career, “Yitz” (as . . . . Continue Reading »

Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 93 (May 1999): 2-10. Marshall, Marbury , and Judicial Supremacy Robert Lowry Clinton’s thesis on “How the Court Became Supreme” (January) is intriguing, but most certainly wrong. According to Professor Clinton, the Supreme Court has gone astray . . . . Continue Reading »

Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 93 (May 1999): 12,38,43,51. Change Her kitchen, it had been her kitchen twenty years. She put the ginger in the cupboard, turned out the light, opened the back door. The shattered globe of an old moon had spiked itself along the blossoms on their dogwood tree. He . . . . Continue Reading »

Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology: From the Fathers to Feminism. By William J. Abraham. Clarendon. 508 pages, $110. This book proposes a conceptual revolution, the refurbishing of the patristic understanding of canon as first of all a means of grace rather than a criterion of truth and . . . . Continue Reading »

When I left the ordained ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and was received into the communion of the Roman Catholic Church, I made a private decision that I would not use my conversion for apologetic or critical purposes. But I must break my own rule after reading the . . . . Continue Reading »

Copyright (c) 1999 First Things 92 (April 1999): 9, 11, 29, 35, 41, . The Sacrament of Penance I. Absolution a second plank given to us by the mercy of God after shipwreck Edward Pusey Forgiven once“ and“for“all at our birthing baptism we still circle high seas, forget to breathe . . . . Continue Reading »

The Prince of Egypt: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Compact Disc from Uni/DreamWorks Records. $17.97. The Prince of Egypt: Inspirational. Compact Disc from Uni/DreamWorks Records. $16.97. The Prince of Egypt: Nashville. Compact Disc from Uni/DreamWorks Records. $16.97. The movie Prince of . . . . Continue Reading »

Louis Dupré has suggested that the hallmark of modernity is the belief that things which can be distinguished logically can exist separately. Several of the contributors to the symposium on contraception suffer from the same weak philosophy of being that gave rise to that belief . . . . Continue Reading »