Thomas the Apostle needs a publicist. Even though in Johns Gospel he gives voice to the most profound statement of faith in the New Testament, My Lord and my God, the first word that comes to mind for most of us on hearing his name is doubtingdoubting Thomas. We forget his courageous response when J
Just after the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept 11 2001 White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer warned Americans at a press conference that we are now living in an era in which 8220 we have to watch what we say 8221 Since that declaration I have been searching for a book de
R 233 mi Brague has had two previous books translated into English The Wisdom of the World The Human Experience of the World in Western Thought 2003 French original 1999 traces the ways in which people have related human action to cosmological realities that serve as models for judging right
From time to time someone predicts that the world is going to end on such-and-such a date These predictions are typically greeted with a mixture of fear ridicule and bemusement In New Testament times many people seemed to have been concerned if not with the end of the world then at least with t
Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta (Doubleday, $22.95) is a disturbing book, one that has become a lightning rod for commentators of every stripe, from believers to unbelievers. Can it also be read as a consoling book? I believe so, though the consolation is not “c