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DIVERSITY & FERMENT THE LITERARY GUIDE TO THE BIBLE Edited by Robert Alter & Frank Kermode Harvard/Belknap, $29.95, 675 pp. Pheme Perkins For the past twenty years a quiet revolution has been going...

Critics' choices for Christmas (December 1987)

BOOKS Critics' choices for Christinas Alice E. Mayhew ince I publish books for a living, I shall refrain from praising any one of my house's offerings, except I shall fall off the...

Biblical Exegesis and Church Doctrine (January 1987)

SCHOLARSHIP & INTEGRITY BIBLICAL EXEGESIS AND CHURCH DOCTRINE Raymond E. Brown Paulist, $8.95, 171 pp. Pheme Perkins The first five chapters of this book provide a forceful statement of...

Reconciling the resurrection (April 1985)

THE CENTRAL ACT OF CHRISTIAN FAITH Reconciling the resurrection PHEME PERKINS Is THERE SUCH a thing as Christian faith without belief in the Resurrection of Jesus? St. Paul's answer in Romans...

Five Gospels (April 1984)

thors: G.K. Chesterton and H.G. Wells. He sympathizes with G.K.C.'s passion and H.G.W.'s keen appreciation of science. He wishes there were a head and heart which combined their...

Meeting the New Testament (January 1984)

Shirley Muldowney -- only that I think a woman like Muldowney, as portrayed by Bonnie Bedelia in Heart Like a Wheel, is pretty terrific. Muldowney is a real person who started drag racing her...

Critics' Christmas choices: (December 1983)

COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR. Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES David Lodge David lodge is a novelist, critic, and professor of modern English literature at the University of Birmingham in England....

The First Urban Christians/From Alexander to Cleopatra (May 1983)

A more universal vision of humanity THE FIRST URBAN CHRISTIANS Wayne Meeks Yale, $19.95, 299 pp. FROM ALEXANDER TO CLEOPATRA Michael Grant Scribner's, $19.95, 284 pp. Pheme Perkins THESE two...

The Church of the Poor Devil: (January 1983)

THE CHURCH OF THE POOR DEVIL John S. Dunne Macmillan, $14.95, 155 pp. Pheme Perkins THE TITLE is taken from the popu-lar name of a chapel of St. Anthony in the Amazon river town of Manaus. It had...

Religious Book Week Critics' Choices (February 1981)

Religious Book Week: CRITICS' CHOICES Pheme Perkins THE TASK and joy of the theological enterprise is to render faith articulate so that the believer finds speech that addresses the perplexities...

Critics' Christmas Choices (December 1979)

remark to themselves on her ugliness--but by her independence and the force of her personality, she is always the center of attention. In the film, Lizzie seems to have more this sort...

The Gnostic Gospels (November 1979)

respond by knocking out a missile based inside the Soviet Union.' 'Well, then what do they, do? 'Well,' he said, 'that's when we hope cooler heads will prevail and they'll stop and talk." As it...

Perkins, Virginia Chase

Perkins, Vrginia Chase

Perkinson, Richard H.

Perkovich, George

Perlmutter, Oscar W.

Perlmutter, Oscar William

Perlstein, Rick

Perrault, John

Perrin, Henri

Perrotta, John

Perry, Glen

Perry, Marvin