The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentary by gabriel said reynolds yale, 1032 pages, $40 This book is misleadingly named. The blame, if blame there be, rests with the stingy conventions of contemporary publishing. The work deserves one of those splendidly prolix seventeenth-century . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro Rege: Living Under Christ’s Kingship Vol. 1: The Exalted Nature of Christ’s Kingship Vol. 2: The Kingship of Christ in its Operation by abraham kuyper edited by john kok and nelson d. kloosterman translated by albert gootjes lexham, 1072 pages, $99.98 Dismissed from the office of prime . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by diarmaid macculloch viking, 752 pages, $40 They said it could not be done. At least Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whose memory his former doctoral student has dedicated this book, said it could not be done. According to him, as Diarmaid MacCulloch reminds us, . . . . Continue Reading »
We need a new understanding of what is at stake. Continue Reading »
Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church by john w. o’malley belknap, 320 pages, $24.95 In 1860 Pope Pius IX lost the papal states, which had been held by his predecessors for a thousand years. Four years later he issued the Syllabus of Errors. The eightieth and . . . . Continue Reading »
A review of Jonathan Leaf's Pushkin: A Life Played Out. Continue Reading »
Canova's statue of George Washington warns against straying from republican virtues in a quest for empire. Continue Reading »
R. Marie Griffith's work is well researched, but conceptually thin. Continue Reading »
With World Youth Day 1993, Catholicism in America discovered the adventure of the New Evangelization. Continue Reading »
Forty years after his death, Paul VI continues to offer a striking witness of suffering, patience, and generous love. Continue Reading »
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