Orestes Brownson's Christian Radicalism

GRASPING THE UNIVERSAL THROUGH THE PARTICULAR

Christopher Lasch

Brownson argues that Man grasps the universal only through a particular (and inevitably divisive) set of loyalties, as opposed to a watery eclecticism.

A Protestant Considers the Catholic Magisterium

NOSE AGAINST THE WINDOWPANE

David Hartman

Like a magnet drawing iron filings to itself, the Catholic Church can best help restore the brok­en Body of Christ by being that which God ordain­ed it to be.

The Last Days & the Church

GUEST COLUMN

John J. Reilly

Predictive Scripture differs from the odd example of human prescience in that it tells us the eternal significance of events to which it alludes.

The Underclass, Part III: Drugs

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

How else to think of drug use — by anyone, living anywhere — as but the most obvious evidence of nihilism, of despair?

Behind the Tempting Grape

CHRIST & NEIGHBOR

John C.Cort

Luminaries of Faith & Reason

Thomas W. Case

Review of The Who's Who of Heaven: Saints for All Seasons, Saint Dominic: The Grace of the Word, Guide to Thomas Aquinas, and The Last Days of Maximilian Kolbe

Briefly: September 1989

Review of The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith Since World War II... The Spanish Civil War as a Reli­gious Tragedy... Pilgrim to the Russian Church... Letters to Marc About Jesus... The Melody of Theology: A Phi­losophical Dictionary... Lister Hill: Statesman from the South... The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History... Intellect and Spirit: The Life and Work of Robert Coles... Selected Letters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky... Viper's Tangle