The Irrational and the Limits of Human Reason

by Peter J. Leithart

Christians see an ultimately knowable universe while acknowledging their own . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

The State Casino: Doing Wrong to Do Good

by The Editors

The state must take a stand against . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

June/July Letters

by Various

Defending Kagan One can, of course, differ with the thesis of Donald Kagan’s Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, but to suggest (as the April editorial, “How Democracy Came About and How It Might Be Sustained,” does) that the work has anything in common with . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991

Briefly Noted

by Various

Theonomy: A Reformed Critique edited by William S. Barker and W. Robert Godfrey Zondervan, 413 pages, $15.95  Certainly one of the more interesting religious stories of recent years has been the attraction of growing numbers of evangelical Christians to a variation of Reformed . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991

Not the Catholic Moment?

by Kenneth Craycraft

Has the Catholic Church lost its place in the public . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991

Evangelicals and Politics

by Dean C. Curry

The Scattered Voice: Christians at Odds in the Public Square by James W. Skillen Zondervan, 225 pages In the minds of many people, American evangelicalism is closely identified with right-wing politics. In reality, the political beliefs of American evangelicals are far more varied than is evident . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991

The God of the Philosophers

by Douglas Groothuis

Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truthby Mortimer J. AdlerMacMillan, 162 pages, $18.95 For many moderns, “truth in religion” means little more than what is deemed important for the psychological and communal needs of individuals or religious communities. Religion is . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991

Not the Worst of Times—Or the Best

by Peter Shaw

The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators and Ideas About the Surge of America in the 1990sBy Ben J. WattenbergThe Free Press, 418 pages, $22.95 Ben Wattenberg is America’s most prominent optimist. He is notoriously reassuring about the condition of what has in his mind become “the first . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991

Religion and Public Life

by Mark A. Noll

Under God: Religion and American Politicsby Garry WillsSimon and Schuster, 445 pages, $24.95 Garry Wills is an indefatigable iconoclast, and the icons that have felt the sting of his wit are as diverse in time as in form. They include ideas like the facile notion of Lockean hegemony in the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991

How Churches Crack Up: The Case of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

by Gilbert Meilaender

Memoirs in Exile: Confessional Hope and Institutional Conflict by John H. Tietjen Fortress Press, 368 pages, $19.95 In the spring of 1969, near the completion of my first year as a student at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, John Tietjen was named the seminary’s president. Most of the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1991