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Religion Resurgent
Histories of religion and the explanatory theories that accompany them (rife in these days when the Reformation is being celebrated by many) are categorically different from the knowledge of God and reference to him that every man carries within himself and which cannot be expunged, even in the most devoted skeptic. "Religion" can be killed in the flower and the stalk, but not at the root. It keeps coming back because it is part of man. The best evidence of this is found in the skeptic himself, in whom the proposition of what is right always and unavoidably accompanies his declaration of what is wrong. This "what is right" is the unelaborated germ of another religion.
—S. M. Hutchens
S. M. Hutchens is a senior editor and longtime writer for Touchstone.
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more on history from the online archives
14.6—July/August 2001
The Transformed Relics of the Fall
on the Fulfillment of History in Christ by Patrick Henry Reardon
31.1—January/February 2018
on Ragnarök, an Extreme Weather Event & the Paths to Conversion by Timothy J. Burbery
15.6—July/August 2002
Things Hidden Since the Beginning of the World
The Shape of Divine Providence & Human History by James Hitchcock
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22.8—November/December 2009
on the Real Men Behind the Christmas Carol by Michael Baum
28.3—May/June 2015
Whittaker Chambers's Lonely War Against Godless Collectivism by Hunter Baker
32.3—May/June 2019
on the Implications of Changing the Pater Noster by John M. McCarthy
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