Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland. Basic Books, 2019. Hardcover, 624 pages, $32. Reviewed by Ben Sixsmith “Just as the Bishop of Oxford refused to consider that he might be descended from an ape,” Tom Holland writes cleverly in the...
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg. Regnery Gateway, 2019. Hardcover, 192 pages, $29. Reviewed by Jason Jewell In “The Blue Cross,” G. K. Chesterton’s first and most famous story about the priest-detective Father Brown, the...
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black Encounter Books, 2019. Hardcover, 216 pages, $26. Reviewed by James Baresel When a book is advertised as a “wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness” one can usually expect that...
Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom by Robert Louis Wilken. Yale University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 248 pages, $26. Reviewed by Mark L. Movsesian The conventional history of religious freedom in the West, the one most of us have...
Who, or What, Dropped the Atom Bombs? Bridging the Atomic Divide: Debating Japan–U.S. Attitudes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Harry Wray and Seishiro Sugihara. Lexington Books, 2019. Hardcover, 340 pages, $115. Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of...
A Scholar for all Seasons ----- Henry T. Edmondson III on "Flannery O’Connor and the Church Made Visible: A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the Gospel" by Ralph C. Wood. Baylor University Press.
The Formless Void of the Therapeutic
The Philosophy of Philip Rieff: Cultural Conflict, Religion, and the Self," Edited by William G. Batchelder, IV and Michael P. Harding. @BloomsburyPub @BloomsburyPhilo @ciceroniansoc
Reviewed by Albert Norton, Jr.
