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Restoring Masculinity Outside the Feminist Frame by Mark Perkins
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Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley
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From Heavenly Harmony
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Contours of Culture
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26.3 — May/June 2013
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James S. Taylor
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Colin Gunton's Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology
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The Matter at Hand
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12.6 — November/December 1999
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13.8 — October 2000
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Life as an Orthodox Churchman in the Church of Sweden: An interview with Dag Sandahl
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Divinely Detailed
All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart
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38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
The Sexual Reformation
A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in Luther’s Thought and Its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521–1531) by Brandt C. Klawitter
A review by Allan C. Carlson
38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
Latter-Day Paper Trail
Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet by John G. Turner
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38.5 — Sept/Oct, 2025
The Scope of the Pope
Infallibility, Integrity and Obedience: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, 1848–2023 by John M. Rist
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