Lower Higher Ed

by Marjorie Maddox

           Here God gums up in the mouth, won’t spit itself out with every easy expletive, leaving the discussion free for disagreement.            Harder to digest than politically . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2015

Evil and the Absence of Truth

by Phillip Cary

The book of Genesis does not give an ultimate explanation of the origin of evil, for evil is at its heart not explicable or intelligible, just as darkness is by its nature not visible. It stems not from a positive presence but from an absence, not a reason but a form of unreason: a failure, a lack, . . . . Continue Reading »

17 Dec 2013

Preaching As Though We Had Enemies

by Stanley Hauerwas

I am just postmodern enough not to trust “postmodern” as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. Just as modernity created the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1995

On the Death of Literature

by Carol Iannone

Those who began to study literature before the radicalization of the university in the 1970s learned that literary criticism was not only a valid undertaking in itself but a way to understand the larger culture and, indeed, the human condition in general. For a time, it seemed that just as much of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1992

Reason Public and Private: The Pannenberg Project

by Richard John Neuhaus

There are numerous obstacles to making the connections between religion and public life. For some moderns, a quasi-religious commitment to secularism produces an overt hostility to religion in all its manifestations. For many others, religion is self-evidently a purely private phenomenon. In that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1992

A Jewish Theological Understanding of Christianity in Our Time

by David Novak

It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level. Once during that time, when I was part of a small group of students who . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1991