Following the release last week of the results of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey,…
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An atheism a theologian can love
“Strangely enough,” Foucault mused, “man—the study of whom is supposed by the naïve to be the oldest investigation since Socrates—is…
Reflections on summer reading
As the start of the fall semester inches closer, we’ve invited a handful of our contributors to reflect on what…
Christianity and the crash
In the December 2009 issue of The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin added to the ongoing debate over the causes of the…
Summer reading: Part III
As the fall semester gets underway, our off the cuff question this week has asked a variety of contributors to…
“Bob and weave”: A response to Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff's calm, careful, humble response to my posts might make me look like an overly pugilistic polemicist. But I…
Whig Calvinism?
I'll close my contribution to this symposium with some broad brush strokes by suggesting that Wolterstorff's project can be seen…
Whose injustice? Which rights?
Wolterstorff (not unlike Jeff Stout) sometimes assumes that commitment to liberal democracy is the only way to care about justice;…
The paucity of secularism?
It seems to me that what worries Wolterstorff about "right order" theories of justice (i.e., communitarian accounts) is that they…
The last prophet of Leviathan
Lilla turns aside to the small cadre of the Enlightened who see the story for what it is....“We” turns out…