Letter to the Editor: October 1993

If You Can't Stand the Heat... Legitimate Question... False Sense of Humility... Biting the Hand That Feeds You?... Turn Someone Else's Cheek?... Self-Indulgent Emotionalism... The Fundamentalist Challenge... The Sins of Israel... Distributism Defended...

Salvaging Patriotism from the Narrow Nationalist

RESCUING TOLERANCE FROM THE ROOTLESS INTELLECTUAL

Jean Bethke Elshtain

One sign of rationalist orthodoxy is a marked disdain for particularist loyalties. Surely hu­man beings will grow up and overcome these things!

Tremors in the Foundation of the U.S. Catholic Church

A PRIEST FROM ENGLAND REFLECTS

Bernard D. Green

America was, in effect, started from scratch. When Americans don't like reality, many of them will try to recreate it.

Walker Percy: The Man & the Movie

A SCANDALOUS SENSE OF PARTICULARITY

Ronald Austin

Percy saw the South as having abiding spiritual resources derived from that sense of tragedy which comes with defeat and loss, and which is indispensable to finding hope.

Fido in Heaven?

LETTER FROM EUROPE

John Warwick Montgomery

The criterion of truth for the modernist theologian is his own ideas -- which, if they aren't supported by Christian sources are replaced by "authorities" that agree with him.

How Not to Be Ecumenical

Brian Barbour

Within Anglicanism there grew up the notion that disparate elements of Christianity, no matter how con­tradictory, could be brought to­gether.

Fictions of Life

William E. May

All human beings during all the stages of their de­velopment are identifiable as liv­ing beings human in nature.

The Semipermeable Membrane Between Church & State

David Hartman

A poll found that 46 percent of Springfield's general population agreed with the statement that "Catholics have more influence than non-Catholics around City Hall."

Tasting God

Brendan Sweetman

Many phi­losophers now appeal to religious experience as a way of justifying the rationality of belief in God.

Briefly: October 1993

Reviews of Vocation of Peace... The Catholic Vision... Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work... The Ethics of Authenticity... ...