Letter to the Editor: November 2008

Deacons Aren't 'Extremely Rare'... A Policy for Choice... Institutions of Heretical Propagation... Not Just Higher Learning... Divorce: A Mortal Sin... Hell Is the Love of God... The Fate of the Damned... Narcissism & Homosexuality... and more

New Oxford Notes: November 2008

Did the NOR Change the Course of the 2008 Presidential Election?... An Exorcism Available to Everyone... Life, Precious & Precarious... A Lesson From the Past

Are We All 'Children of God'?

BAPTISM OR BIRTHRIGHT?

F. Douglas Kneibert

For many liberal Christians, God has been reduced to a sugar daddy who hands out His gifts free of charge -- come one, come all.

Eschatology According to Jacques Maritain

DAMNED YET FORGIVEN

Alice von Hildebrand

Jacques Maritain claims that the inhabitants of Hell, while hating God as the Author of glory, still love Him as the Author of "being."

The Charismatic Appetite

THE CULT OF EXPERIENCE

Heather M. Erb

The charismatic quest for paranormal experiences of God is also a contrived pseudo-communion of ecstatic emotional dissolution.

Christopher Lasch, Radical Orthodoxy & the Modern Collapse of the Self

CAPITALISM: A CHRISTIAN HERESY?

Adam Parsons

Lasch combined a leftist critique of extant economic structures with an appreciation for the value of cultural tradition.

The News You May Have Missed

READ ALL ABOUT IT...

Michael S. Rose

A Gentle Introduction... Sub Rosa... Pom-Pom Mom... Back-to-School Sale... Killing Satellite TV... Da Vinci Code Attacker... Spiritual Menu...

As Boston Goes, So Goes the Nation

Dan Flaherty

Lawler's book shows how cultural and social attitudes developed during Boston's "Catholic century" would ultimately lead to decline.

Exploding the False Claims of the New Atheists

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

Vox Day uses logic and facts (not theology) to refute the "unholy trinity" of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens.

Briefly: November 2008

Reviews of The Blood-Red Crescent... John: A Novel... Space Vulture