Letter to the Editor: December 1990

Offensive & Completely False... Feminist Bluejays... Contraception & "Sexual Strip-Mining"... Focus on Walker Percy

Probing Gnosticism & Its Modern Derivatives

NOTES ON GNOSTICISM — PART II

Christopher Lasch

The more it is subjected to scholarly attention, the more it loses the char­acter of a definite movement of thought and becomes a vague impulse that can be found all over.

The Church in Tension with a Lockean Culture

ON AUTHORITY IN RELIGION

Robert N. Bellah

Chris­tian freedom is very different from the nega­tive freedom to do whatever we want as long as we do not violate the limited con­tract based on self-interest.

"Liberal, Democrat, & Prochoice": What's Wrong with This Picture?

ABORTION RIGHTS AS PROPERTY RIGHTS

Christopher T. Dodson

When feminists argue for an unfettered right to have an abortion, they argue for complete control over their property.

Medjugorje: True or False?

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C. Cort

If the apparitions are not authentic, this is no credit to the Christian faith, no matter how many conversions may have occurred.

Dissecting Newman

J.M. Cameron

Theo­logical problems were the staple of Newman's intensely lived thought. Ker brings out its cogency and originality; his book is a tribute to the man and his work.

The Texture of the Real

Will Hoyt

Lukacs jolts the reader into appreciating a powerful perspective — namely, that of a person who is at once a reactionary, a "displaced per­son," and a devout Catholic.

Can Computers Think?

Gary Mar

One strain of artificial intelligence postulates that the mind is to the brain what a program is to its computer hardware: Mental representa­tions are computer programs.

Briefly: December 1990

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