The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life by Christopher Alexander Center for Environmental Structure (Berkeley, Calif.) 476 pp., $75.00 cloth, 2002 Traditionalists and others complain about...
Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart William B. Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 448 pp., $36.00 paper, 2003 The Beauty of the Infinite is a complex and subtle work that presents an aesthetic defense of Christian rhetoric...
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins Free Press (New York) 304 pp., $26.00 cloth, 2006 Few things cause more excitement among American evangelicals than the discovery that a well-known actor, athlete, or entertainer is a...
A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow Random House (New York) 540 pp., $35.00 cloth, 2007 The past may be another country, as a cliché holds, but it nonetheless remains...
Why America is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice by Juliana Geran Pilon Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Md.) 280 pp., $26.95 paper, 2007 The question that Juliana Geran Pilon asks in Why America Is Such a Hard Sell is not at all rhetorical. We are the...
The Centrality of Civic Virtue---@DavidHein9 on "The Roots of Liberalism: What Faithful Knights and the Little Match Girl Taught Us about Civic Virtue" by F. H. Buckley. @GMULawLibrary