The Winter 2009 issue of The City has been posted in full via Issuu, and is now available below. A list of contents follows – we hope you enjoy it.
Benjamin Domenech
The Summer 2009 issue of The City has been posted in full via Issuu, and is now available below. We hope you enjoy it.
Contents:
A Very Model of a Modern Evangelical
John Mark Reynolds + Francis J. Beckwith
Matthew Lee Anderson
Featuring
The Soul & The City + Wilfred McClay
Who Owns Science? + Hunter Baker
Solzhenitsyn & The Future + Peter Augustine Lawler
Obama & Abortion + Robert P. George
On Marriage + Jonathan Rauch & Joseph Knippenberg
Christ in the Classroom + Louis Markos
Books & Culture
Russell D. Moore on Updike’s Run
Matthew J. Milliner on Gore Walk
Jordan Ballor on The Media’s Blind Spot
Paul Bonicelli on Aid For Africa
Poetry
Lovejoy Street by A.E. Stallings
The Word
St. John Chrysostom on Faith and Politics
In our second article shared from the latest issue — which we assure you will soon be posted in its entirety in a more readable format — Peter Augustine Lawler‘s essay in the Summer 2009 edition of The City is a timely statement on technology and life.
The Russian novelist, historian, and essayist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died in August of last year, was perhaps more responsible than any other man—and certainly any other writer—for the West’s great victory in the “ideological war” with communism. It was a war, as James Schall has written, that was “about what is a human being,” during which Solzhenitsyn demonstrated his “intellectual courage, the courage to tell the truth when the regime, any regime, is built on a lie.”
The Russian was even courageous enough not to hesitate to criticize the West—including our country. In a 1993 Address to the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein entitled “We Have Ceased to See the Purpose,” Solzhenitsyn said that the defeat of communism in many ways left the West worse off. There was no longer any “unifying purpose” to mask the deepening moral vacuum characteristic of modern, progressively more technological life as such. “All we had forgotten,” Solzhenitsyn contends, “was the human soul.” The prevailing answer to “what a human being is” remains far from complete. What we have been given, he explains, is “an extremely intricate trial of our free will” brought on by our technological success.
But oh! thy Wisdom, Lord! thy Grace! thy Praise!
Open mine Eyes to see the same aright.
Take off their film, my Sins, and let the Rayes
Of thy bright Glory on my peepholes light.
I fain would love and better love thee should,
If ‘fore me thou thy Loveliness unfold.
Edward Taylor
Meditation 35
- Micah Watson on religion, reason and the common good at the Making Men Moral conference at Union University earlier this year.
- A problem for today’s atheist intellectuals: how do they keep God away from the kids?
- A new book by Bethany Moreton, with the attention grabbing title of To Serve God and Wal-Mart, is reviewed at PopMatters.
- An embryo is a human: Maureen Condic, Patrick Lee, and Robert P. George.
- An essay by editor of The City Ben Domenech on marriage, population, and social change inspired a few responses at First Things, The Atlantic, and Mere Orthodoxy. A followup piece that gets deeper into the statistics is here.
- Matthew Milliner, who has a piece on contemporary art in our forthcoming issue, has a post on Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts’ Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto exhibit. Read it here.
- Last, an excellent sermon on humility from Jeremy Begbie, the new Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School.
The City: Summer 2009
a very model of a modern evangelical
John Mark Reynolds + Francis J. Beckwith
Matthew Lee Anderson
featuring
The Soul & The City + Wilfred McClay
Who Owns Science? + Hunter Baker
Solzhenitsyn & The Future + Peter Augustine Lawler
Obama & Abortion + Robert P. George
A Debate on Marriage + Jonathan Rauch & Joseph Knippenberg
Christ in the Classroom + Louis Markos
books
Russell D. Moore on Updike’s Run
Matthew J. Milliner on Gore Walk
Jordan Ballor on The Media’s Blind Spot
Paul Bonicelli on Aid For Africa
with poetry by A.E. Stallings and the word spoken by St. John Chrysostom
The sweetest joys and delights I have experienced, have not been those that have arisen from a hope of my own good estate; but in a direct view of the glorious things of the gospel. When I enjoy this sweetness, it seems to carry me above the thoughts of my own safe estate. It seems at such times a loss that I cannot bear, to take off my eye from the glorious, pleasant object I behold without me, to turn my eye in upon myself, and my own good estate.
Jonathan Edwards
Personal Narrative
- Some reactions to the protests in Iran (and President Obama’s decision not to get involved) here, here and here.
- David Novak writes at Public Discourse on why we should oppose same-sex marriage. We will have pieces on the possibility of reconciliation on this issue from Jonathan Rauch and Joseph Knippenberg in the issue soon to appear on your doorstep.
- Jordan J. Ballor, who will be reviewing a book on religion and the media for us in that same summer issue, discusses Protestant approaches to law at First Things.
- And Peter Lawler, who will have a piece on Solzhenitsyn in this thrice mentioned issue (which, you can tell, is on our minds) has a piece on his dismissal from the President’s bioethics council over the weekend.
- Finally, Patrick Kavanaugh writes on the real obstacle to creativity: too many possibilities.
