Letter to the Editor: September 1994

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The Gnostic Temptation in the Catholic Church

THE OLD MYTHOLOGIES ARE BACK

Bernard D. Green

Does the Church offer salvific truth and grace, or can we do away with that, and instead just rely on knowledge gleaned from myth, psychology, and experience?

The D-Day Commemorations

AN ELDERLY CATHOLIC PACIFIST REFLECTS

Gordon C. Zahn

The spirit of Hitler -- and, yes, of Churchill and Roosevelt -- still lives, and the instruments of death and destruc­tion are more diabolical than even they dreamed.

Remembering Christopher Lasch

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

He spoke earnestly and with evident alarm about the decline in the persuasiveness of various religious and cultural norms, with serious consequences for family life.

The Religion of Dr. Johnson

LETTERS FROM ENGLAND

John Warwick Montgomery

Biographer Peter Quennell leaves no room for ambiguity: "Johnson…admitted no compromise, but asserted the unshakable truth of every major point of Christian doctrine."

What's In a Name?

GUEST COLUMN

Charles Helms

Trendy names are not Christian names of martyrs, angels, or saints. They manifest the market­ing flim-flammery of an ad agency and the soul of a brokerage house.

German Protestant Resistance to Hitler

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Resist­ers were divided on whether their aim was to preserve intact the integrity and identity of the Church or whether activity to eradicate Nazism was demanded.

A Rabbinic Disputation With Jesus

Giorgio Buccellati

Neusner is reso­lute in saying that Jesus broke with Judaism in irreconcilable ways, and that one does Him a dis­service to pretend otherwise.

Briefly: September 1994

Reviews of Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World... An Introduction to Moral Theol­ogy... George Grant: A Biography... ...