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The Question of Human Identity
The Full Christian Answer to Modernity’s Crisis
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38:2 — mar/apr 2025
The Whole Biblical Story in Handel’s Messiah, Oftentimes Missed
by Calvin Stapert
38:2 — mar/apr 2025
The Misuse of Scientific “Authority” for Utopian Ends
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Hans Boersma on Our Creaturely Rejection of a Theophanizing God
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Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination by David Mills
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Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp
An Essay on Myth & 'Real Life' by Stratford Caldecott
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A History of the Protestant Debate over Contraception by James A. Altena
32.1—January/February 2019
on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson
34.1—January/February 2021
Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware
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From Heavenly Harmony
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As It Is Written . . .
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Book Returns
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The Leading Edge
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
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Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
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Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value by Julian Johnson
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pondering the Christian life
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35.1 — January/February, 2022
Crucial Witness
Glory Wrapped in Shame: An Exegetical Study of the Passion Narrative
in the Gospel of St. John, Highlighting Its Historical and Theological Insights by Abraham Oommen
A review by John G. Panagiotou
35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
Uppercut
Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
edited with an introduction by George Weigel
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35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
The Living Bible
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew by Hans Boersma
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35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
The Last Cavalier Poet
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