Natural Law and the Need for Moral Clarity

Natural Law and the Need for Moral Clarity

Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics By Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson. IVP Academic, 2025.  Paperback, 264 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by Josh Herring. At the 2025 Academy of Philosophy and Letters meeting, Jason Jewell...
Natural Law and the Need for Moral Clarity

Moral Realism Over and Against Contingent Pluralism 

Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics By Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson. IVP Academic, 2025. Paperback, 264 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. Hopeful Realism is a laudable collaboration among three political...
Family Homes and Drive-in Churches

Family Homes and Drive-in Churches

Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America By Stephen M. Koeth, CSC. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Paperback, 328 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jacob Akey. This September, the cardinal archbishop of New York unveiled a...
Christopher Dawson and Pluralism

Christopher Dawson and Pluralism

By Gerald J. Russello. Editors’ Note: The University Bookman honors the fourth anniversary of the passing of its long-time editor, Gerald J. Russello, by republishing this essay on one of Gerald’s favorite subjects: Christopher Dawson. This essay appeared in Faith...
Trust and Hope as the Final Words

Trust and Hope as the Final Words

Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up, A Poetic Meditation By Christine Kohler. Resource Publications, 2024.  Hardcover, 78 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin. Christine Kohler’s poetry debut, Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up, A Poetic Meditation,...