editorials

Why Conservatives Can’t Win


by James M. Kushiner



interview

A Novelist Looks at Faith & Fiction

An Interview with Susan Howatch
by David Virtue



report

Desperately Seeking the Mainline?

Roman Catholic Bishops & the National Council of Churches
by Mark Tooley


columns

Practical Christianity

Of Donkeys & Lampholders

by Thomas S. Buchanan



12.2—March/April 1999

features

Touchstones of Catholicity

Bishop Richard Challoner & the Idea of the Primitive Church
by William P. Hyland


Are Ordinary Christians Ethical?

Socrates’ Ethical Dilemma & the Mere Christian
by Graeme Hunter


The Wide World of Tobit

The Apocrypha’s Tobit & Literary Tradition
by Patrick Henry Reardon


Where God Meets Man

The Church, the Incarnation, & the “Catholic Synthesis”
by Folke T. Olofsson


views

Dark Shadows of Turning

Eric Scheske on Evil in Legend & Life

Constantinople’s Moral Oversight

Andrew F. Estocin on Orthodoxy in the Public Square

book reviews

Sitting Still with Christopher Dawson

Eternity in Time:
Christopher Dawson and the
Catholic Idea of History
edited by Stratford Caldecott
and John Morril
reviewed by Adam Schwartz


departments

Every issue of Touchstone also contains short commentaries by our editors, news about the persecuted church, and our spirited letters section.

All content © The Fellowship of St. James — 2024. All rights reserved.
Returns, refunds, and privacy policy.