Edward T. Oakes Aquinas to the Rescue Reason and the Reasons of Faith Edited by Paul]. Griffiths and Reinhold Hutter T. & T. Clark, $35,373 pp. Probably the most famous line from Blaise...
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THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION We•s Solution Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe Simon Conway Morris Cambridge University Press, $29.95, 464 pp. inally, a book on evolution that gets it right....
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PRIDE OF THE VALKYRIE The Tristan Chord Wagner and Philosophy Bryan Magee Henry Holi. $35 .399pp Edward T. Oakes Not to put too fine a point on it: artists can be real jerks. Leo Tolstoy abused...
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WHY THE DANE WAS MELANCHOLY Hamlet in Purgatory Stephen Greenblatt Princeton University Phw, $29.95,314 pp Edward T. Oakes B^HH y spiritual director tells the I^H^I I following tale: Several...
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former. In this way we are more likely to become, to quote the mongering, its professional isolation-is as bad as Ruddy Vatican's Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the...
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REALLY BAD IDEAS God's Funeral A. JV. Wilson IV. VV. Norton. S2r>. 135 pp Edward T. Oahcs A s our rapidly elapsing cen tury draws to its dose, many commentators are trying to guess how...
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ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS Edward T. 6akes ver fifty years ago Monsignor John Tracy Ellis sounded his tocsin, warning the world of Catholic higher education that it had been mired too...
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REASON NEEDS GOD Edward T. Oakes O ne of the most startling--indeed, downright revolutionary-statements ever made by Thomas Aquinas can be found in his Commentary on Job. At this point in...
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Repent! EDWARD T. OAKES M owadays most Christians labor under the impres sion that Saint Augustine was a rigorist. No doubt this is partly due to his strict sexual ethics, which...
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WIMSEY SURPASSED A MIND IN LOVE Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life & Soul Barbara Reynolds St. Martin's Press, $25.95, 398 pp. Edward T. Oakes Nowadays Dorothy L. Sayers is known by the read...
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erything is argued: exhibits are...
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WITHOUT AMBASSADOR-OR DIPLOMACY THE AMERICAN RELIGION The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation Harold Bloom Simon and Schuster, $22, 247 pp. gions and worldviews. But what all the...
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I i i o , , Women and Abortion Theology's Failure Palo Alto, Calif. To the Editors: Having just been lucky enough to discover Mary Daly's Feb. 4 article "Abortion and Sexual Caste," I should...
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