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1994 April

Christopher Lasch: A Memoir

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

A central theme of his thought, which made him anathema to ideologues Left and Right, was that cultural libertarianism and economic libertinism go hand-in-hand.

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Letter to the Editor: April 1994

Junk-Food Catholics... God Gift-Wraps His Presents... Catholicism, As Corrected By Tarditional Anglicans... Just a Little Bit Catholic... Aquinas & Transubstantiation... St. Augustine: 'A Mindless Sectarian'?... Profound Ignorance of Judaism... Irresponsible Parents...

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Pilgrimage to the Christian East

UKRAINIAN DIARY - PART I

Henri J.M. Nouwen

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the independence of Ukraine, the Greco-Catholic Church re-emerged in great force.

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Catholicism Confronts New Age Syncretism

TO DABBLE OR TO DECIDE?

Bernard D. Green

Syn­cretism assumes common content and, on that basis, is open to incorporating beliefs and practices from any and every spiritual tradition.

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Dracula or Jesus?

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

John Warwick Montgomery

In my judgment, the sources of life for Roma­nia are its universities and Christian churches.

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On the Difference Between a Hero & an Apostle

GUEST COLUMN

Will Hoyt

"I die daily" is creedal. The more one waits on this phrase and lets it reverberate, the more one realizes that it focuses not just Paul the man but also a whole theology.

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The Drama of the Oxford Movement

David Denton

John Henry Newman, Rob­ert and Henry Wilberforce, and Henry Manning came to realize that their struggle was nothing less than the eternal question of "whom shall ye serve?"

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Briefly: April 1994

Reviews of The Culture of Disbelief... She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Dis­course... From Cottage to Work Station: The Family's Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age... A Robert Coles Omnibus... Song for Nobody: A Memory Vi­sion of Thomas Merton... Theology and Social Theory: Be­yond Secular Reason...

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