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How Happiness Studies Lets Us Down
Demand elicits supply. The demand I have in mind is the demand for happiness: Suicide rates are up, depression is up, and though people today seek to be happy,...
The Uses of Death
From Here to Eternity: Reflections on Death, Immortality, and the Resurrection of the Bodyby randall b. smithemmaus road, 296 pages, $27.95 A Presbyterian colleague once explained to me that...
Evangelizing Christians
If baptism isn’t just a symbol of initiation but is an initiation, then Zach was already a Christian. God’s seal had been impressed indelibly on his soul. The inky...
This Time Will Not Be the Same
G od willing, the new evangelization will happen, but let usnot imagine that this time will be like the first time. The old evangelizationproclaimed the Good News among pagan,...
Natural Law Revealed
I The relations among nature, reason, and revelation are mysterious for both Protestants and Catholics. Consider John Paul II’s remark that “the primary and definitive source for studying the...
Truth–or Consequences
Truth–or Consequences Lying; An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity by Paul J. Griffiths Brazos 254 pp. $18.99 reviewed by J. Budziszewski Everyone has lied. Most people are uneasy about lying, but most...
Feeling Moral
Luke! Trust your feelings!” As we know, Luke does what he is told, and the galaxy is saved. How fortunate that he did not trust his mind and skill,...
The Second Tablet Project
According to the mainstream of the natural law tradition, the reality of God and of our duty to Him are among the things everyone really knows. They are part...
Hauerwas v. Hauerwas v. Hauerwas
Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified.By Stanley Hauerwas.Abingdon. 272 pp.$25. In one sense this is a postmodern book. I don’t mean precisely that it propounds postmodernism, but rather...