Letter to the Editor: September 1992

Defining the Catholic Novel... Loving the Sinner and the Sin?... Confining God-I... Confining God-II... Whiplasch... Don't Give Up on Teachers... Lasch and Weil... Flirting with Canterbury... Should I Leave the Church?... A Non-Catholic Looks In... Don't Abort Bellah... Expression in Life and Art... Peculiar, But... Cussed and Discussed

Tribute to a Mentor: Paul Hanly Furfey (1896-1992)

REVEREND SOCIOLOGIST

Gordon C. Zahn

A year as a medical student in Germany had left him "disillusioned with the purely scientific-empirical effort to understand human behavior."

The Strange Decline of American Evangelicalism

AN INSIDER'S VIEW

John Warwick Montgomery

What explains Evangelicalism's inability to fulfill its promise of a generation ago? At least four factors con­tribute to the problem.

The Medievalism of Etienne Gilson

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #12

Avery Dulles

The patristic and medieval thinkers, profiting from the light of biblical revelation, were able to achieve greater consistency and rationality in their philosophical thought than the most brilliant minds of antiquity.

How to Help Teenagers Say "No" to Drugs & Alcohol

IN A CULTURE OF SELF-GRATIFICATION

Thomas Lickona

The long-term battle will require a shift in cultural values — away from the frantic pur­suit of pleasure toward a deeper, more spiritual sense of what life is about.

The Living Dead

GUEST COLUMN

Thomas H. Naylor and Magdalena R. Naylor

Our economy is driven by our intense psychological need to fill a spiritual and emo­tional vacuum. If we are feeling down and need a lift, we go shopping.

Finding Spirituality in a Graph?

Matthew Markovic

Nelson contends that there have been two major traditions in Western economic theology: the "Roman" and the "Protestant."

Briefly: September 1992

Reviews of Womanspirit: Reclaiming the Deep Feminine in Our Human Spirituality... Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare?... The Gospel According to Jesus... Religion and Economic Justice... How My Mind Has Changed... Holy Bible New Revised Standard Version Giant Print