Pluralism and the Catholic University

by Alan Charles Kors

The decline of Catholic higher education in our country should concern all Americans, regardless of their religious . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2002

Christianity and the West

by Wolfhart Pannenberg

The importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is not simply a matter of the past. In the process of secularization Western culture did emancipate itself from its religious roots, but that emancipation was by no means complete. A . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1994

The Liberalism That We Need

by Maciej Zieba

There is liberalism, and then there is liberalism. We in the post-Communist societies of Central and Eastern Europe, and especially we in Poland, do not have an easy time sorting out the varieties of liberalism that are being proposed to us. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1994

1992 December Letters

by Various

Pluralism, Nay & Yea From S. Mark Heim’s discussion of “Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions” (August/September) I get the impression that today’s Christianity has little to do with God. It seems to be more interested and active in such trendy cultural issues as liberation . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1992

Why Pluralism Needs Monism

by Peter J. Leithart

“Vatican II,” George Weigel writes in Freedom and Its Discontents, “posed a basic challenge to the many monisms, religious and secular, ancient and modern, that continue to beset human life and the cause of human freedom.” The Council mounted this challenge to the monistic cast of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1992

Christianity in the Mirror of Jewish Thought

by Alan L. Mittleman

What do modern Jewish thinkers make of Christianity? Is Christianity in their eyes still the oppressive, pervasive presence that medieval Jews experienced as Christendom? Is Christianity held to be that which fills the hearts of Gentiles with implacable contempt for Jews? Or is it a chastened, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1992

Pluralism and the Otherness of World Religions

by S. Mark Heim

We have witnessed in recent years the flowering of various Christian pluralistic theologies calling for unequivocal affirmation of the equal validity of all world faiths. It is argued that Christianity (and to some extent other traditions) has been infected with a virulent exclusivist virus, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1992

A Lutheran Affirmation

by Leslie Newbigin

No Other Gospel!  Christianity Among The World Religions  by carl e. braaten  fortress press, 142 pages, $10.95 Carl Braaten gives us here a spirited and well-grounded affirmation of the centrality and finality, the uniqueness and universality, of Jesus Christ, and a frontal assault . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1992

Super Flumina Babylonis, or, Outside the Mainstream

by Paul V. Mankowski

Readers of the New York Times, which Alasdair MacIntyre has called “that parish magazine of affluent and self-congratulatory liberal enlightenment,” will have noticed the appearance on its op-ed pages of a relatively new genre of sermonizing. The burden of the preachers (who include, but . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1990