Briefly Noted 141

From the December 1997 Print Edition

Near Unto God by Abraham Kuyper; adapted by James C. Schaap Eerdmans, 235 pages, $14 paper Recent years have seen a massive upsurge of interest in Christian spirituality”what Richard Mouw calls, in the preface to this book, the “spirituality bust.” But it has centered primarily on . . . . Continue Reading »

1997 December Letters

From the December 1997 Print Edition

The San Francisco Solution? Thank you for publishing Archbishop William J. Levada’s “The San Francisco Solution”(August/September), on that city’s domestic partnership ordinance and the Catholic Church’s response. It was a masterpiece of good Catholic thinking as applied pastorally to a . . . . Continue Reading »

Briefly Noted 140

From the November 1997 Print Edition

Plato on the Human Paradox by Robert J. O’Connell, S.J. Fordham Fordham University Press, 162 pages, $30 cloth, $15 paper Like Santayana’s famous dictum that those who don’t read history are condemned to repeat it, Whitehead’s line that all philosophy is a series of . . . . Continue Reading »

November Letters

From the November 1997 Print Edition

Power, Not Principle In “Debriefing the Philosophers” (June/July), J. Bottum puts special emphasis on the following statement by assisted-suicide advocate Ronald Dworkin: “In the meantime, the public would have had the opportunity to participate more fully in the argument about . . . . Continue Reading »

Briefly Noted 139

From the October 1997 Print Edition

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible by Howard Clark Kee, Eric M. Meyers, John Rogerson, and Anthony J. Saldari Cambridge University Press, 616 pages, $45. To paraphrase the very book to which this is the companion: of the making of books on the Bible there is no end, and the reading thereof is a . . . . Continue Reading »

October Letters

From the October 1997 Print Edition

Breast Cancer and Abortion I’d be the last one to defend the ideological bias of the New England Journal of Medicine (Brind, “Abortion, Breast Cancer, and Ideology,” May), but if breast cancer was increased by induced abortion, then one would expect to see it epidemic in places like . . . . Continue Reading »

Briefly Noted 138

From the August/September 1997 Print Edition

Making Christ Known: Historic Mission Documents from the Lausanne Movement, 1974-1989 Edited by John R. Stott. Foreword by Billy Graham. Eerdmans, 304 pages, $30 paper. In July 1974, 2,700 evangelical Protestants from 150 nations gathered for the first International Congress on World Evangelization . . . . Continue Reading »

Briefly Noted 137

From the June/July 1997 Print Edition

Religion, Science, and Naturalism by Willem Drees Cambridge University Press, 314 pages, $59.95. Among philosophical naturalists, there are what one might call the mean ones and the nice ones. Mean ones, like Tufts professor Daniel Dennett, sternly inform us that natural causes explain everything . . . . Continue Reading »

June/July Letters

From the June/July 1997 Print Edition

Bad History, Bad Logic Carol Iannone’s piece on Inherit the Wind (February) was long overdue. Besides being false to history, the film version takes liberties with logic. This speech delivered by the Darrow/Drummond character in the film is a classic instance of the argument from the slippery . . . . Continue Reading »