Letter to the Editor: October 1992

Authentic Sex Is Never "Safe"... Sex and Sacredness... Flannery O'Connor's Vision... Nouwen and Bellah

Are Fundamentalists Really So Bad?

AN APPEAL FOR UNDERSTANDING

John Mark Reynolds

He is a stereotyped creature: devoid of reason, fearful of modern scholarship, a man of emotion. For many, he represents the pathetic branch of the Christian faith.

The Superficiality of "Left" & "Right"

BEYOND THE LOCKEAN UNIVERSE

Thomas Storck

Our conventional grouping of people and positions does not correspond to reality, to the richness and variety of actual political posi­tions.

The Incarnational Mind vs. the Captive Mind

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #13

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Milosz puts on display the impoverished, one-dimensional, flattened view of the human being which a totalizing ideology requires and feeds on.

Eugen Drewermann's Trivialization of Theology

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

John Warwick Montgomery

What he teaches us is that the tree of 19th-century radical biblical criticism continues to bear poisoned fruit.

The Looming Triumph of Gnosticism

Robert N. Bellah

Bloom argues persuasively that Gnosticism is found not only in marginal sects but in American Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism, as well as our secular culture.

Toward a Family-Friendly America

Celia Wolf-Devine

Getting people to care about children is closely con­nected with getting them to care about the future of our society.

Mysticism as "Priesthood"

Christopher Nugent

Review of Teresa of Avila by Rowan Williams, Juana Ines de la Cruz and the Theology of Beauty by George H. Tavard, and Life as Prayer and Other Writings of Evelyn Underhill edited by Lucy Menzies

Postmodernism

Gary Mar

Review of Dear Carnap, Dean Van by W.V. Quine & Rudolf Carnap, Beyond Analytic Philosophy by Hao Wang, and Science and Relativism by Larry Laudan

The Power of Christian Conscience

David Denton

Review of Witness edited by George Sanderlin

Gambling with Creation

Jeff Dietrich

Review of The Technological Bluff by Jacques Ellul

Briefly: October 1992

Reviews of Towards a Society that Serves Its People: The Intellectual Contribution of El Salvador's Murdered Jesuits... Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation... Conversations with Robert Coles