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Secularizations.(Essay)

As with most academic traditions, and especially those that are viewed as soft, there are orthodoxies and fashions, and sometimes sudden turns,...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 02/01/09 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication -
On loving the law of God.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(Essay)

When I was a young Lutheran seminarian, I was struck by a professor's forceful declaration that the phrase growth in grace is a contradiction in...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 02/01/09 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication -
The pro-life movement as the politics of the 1960s.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)

Whatever else it is, the pro-life movement of the last thirty-plus years is one of the most massive and sustained expressions of citizen...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 01/01/09 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication -
While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)

* Here's an interesting statement by Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News, who also runs the "Crunchy Con" blog on beliefnet.com. Some years ago...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 01/01/09 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication -
Reconciling East and West.

It is no secret that the quest for Christian unity has come upon hard times. As a Catholic, one's first duty is to make it clear that the...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 12/01/08 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication -
Dostoevsky's question.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky)

In 2007, as the Anglican communion was tearing itself apart, the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, announced that he was taking a...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 12/01/08 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication -
How you pose the question has everything to do with the answer you're likely to get.(While We're At It)

How you pose the question has everything to do with the answer you're likely to get. For instance: Should institutions that receive government...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 12/01/08 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication -
"The French may think that master narratives have had their day but in my view that only tells us they have lost the plot.".(While We're At It)

"The French may think that master narratives have had their day but in my view that only tells us they have lost the plot." That is an incisive...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 12/01/08 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication -
Will there ever be peace between Israel and the Arabs?(While We're At It)

Will there ever be peace between Israel and the Arabs? It is a question that, like many other questions of great moment, partakes of...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 12/01/08 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication -
Academic fashions, especially in the humanities and most especially in literary criticism, tend to have a short shelf life.(While We're At It)

Academic fashions, especially in the humanities and most especially in literary criticism, tend to have a short shelf life. Although they seem...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 12/01/08 by Neuhaus, Richard John · More from publication


