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“. . . The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment; or as the Nazi liked to say, "of Blood and Soil." I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some Ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers. . . .”
The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy (1955)
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Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware
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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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The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
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33.3—May/June 2020
Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East by Carrie Frederick Frost
Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage Through Pregnancy by Laura S. Jansson
by Agnes R. Howard
32.4—July/August 2019
Today's Culture Wars Are Both Ancient & Modern by Allan C. Carlson
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34.1 — January/February 2021
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From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
34.1 — January/February 2021
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on works of Christian art
34.1 — January/February 2021
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Mortal Remains
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As It Is Written . . .
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Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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(2001–2013)
19.8 — October 2006
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20.2 — March 2007
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
24.3 — May/June 2011
Gilbert Meilaender's The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis
26.4 — July/August 2013
Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
24.4 — July/August 2011
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
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15.7 — September 2002
15.6 — July/August 2002
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
13.4 — May 2000
16.4 — May 2003
16.2 — March 2003
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An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden
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32.6 — November/December, 2019
Strategic Christians
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
by Alan Jacobs
A review by Jesse Russell
32.2 — March/April, 2019
The Aura of Science
Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West, Volume II
by Paul Gosselin
A review by Louis Markos
32.6 — November/December, 2019
Stargazers' Log
Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy: A History of Visual Observing from Harriot to Moore
by Neil English
A review by Guillermo Gonzalez
32.2 — March/April, 2019
Shortfall
Deeper Magic: The Theology Behind the Writings of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
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