Letter to the Editor: March 1989

Great Horses Don't Always Finish First... Flabbergasted... Moving & Troubling... Reconstruction... The Abortion Issue... More on Allan Bloom

A Personalist Vision

A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE BASED ON THE TRANSCENDENT DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

James G. Hanink

A Response From John Hellman

John Hellman

A Response From Jean Bethke Elshtain

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Henry Adams, the Doctrine of Progress & the Virgin

THE CENTRAL CREATIVE MISSION OF WOMEN

William D. Miller

Earthiness as Sacred

GUEST COLUMN

Ken Russell

The Church celebrates and proclaims publicly some very private human activities that might well cause some folks to feel a bit squeamish.

Memories of 1964

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Corporate Worship, Christian Community & Social Action

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

Good congregational singing and good homilies are important to the quality of the church service. Protestants are way ahead of Catholics on these.

The Pope as Playwright

Lucy Mazareski

Karol Wojtyla cofounded a theater in which scenery, costumes, technical and visual effects, even acting, were kept to a minimum: a “theater of the word.”

Briefly: March 1989

Reviews of Doctrinal Standards in the Wesleyan Tradition... Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Che­neys... Patrology, Volume IV: The Gold­en Age of Latin Patristic Litera­ture... Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Exile and Return in the History of Ju­daism... The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jew­ish Struggle with Modernity... Against the Protestant Gnostics... Marxism and Religion: A Descrip­tion and Assessment of the Marx­ist Critique of Christianity... Letters of Etienne Gilson to Hen­ri de Lubac... Letters of Marshall McLuhan... The Altruistic Personality: Res­cuers of Jews in Nazi Europe... First Steps in Prayer